Many thanks to the wonderful A.J. Huffman for accepting these two poems, Two Hundred Years to Die and Photograph, Age 11. I wrote Two Hundred Years to Die after revisiting my old college campus and seeing a friend I hadn’t seen in a long time. It’s strange how time can start and stop like that.… Continue reading Two Poems at Pyrokinection
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Cemetery Walk
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. – Charles Baudelaire I’ve always like cemeteries, even as a kid. Maybe it’s cause they’re quiet and sad and beautiful and you rarely see other people. They’re good Thinkin’ Places. The more I travel, the more I… Continue reading Cemetery Walk
Over at Tumbling in Books
I’ve got the first couple of pages of Lizzy Speare and the Cursed Tomb over at Tumbling in Books. Here – I’ll whet your appetite Chapter 1 – Something Wicked this Way Comes The three witches were huddled so close around a spinning wheel they seemed like one person. “You’re not supposed to be here”… Continue reading Over at Tumbling in Books
The Cutting Room Floor
Happy New Year kids! I hope you all played nice and had some lovely days off. Jay and I spent New Years Day walking around Central Park and saw a cardinal and a red-tailed hawk through the binoculars of a lovely nearby ornithologist. It was a beautiful day. And now, back to business. So today I’m… Continue reading The Cutting Room Floor
End of the Year Poem
Farewell 2012. May 2013 outshine all your dark moments and bring it’s own good madness. Especially, These Little Parts Jay, last night, carrying the bags up the subway steps, we were tired, from another day of shopping in the city, and traveling home for so long on those underground trains. We had everything… Continue reading End of the Year Poem
Ally Malinenko 