My poem, “Demise,” has been included in The Crooked Ledge of Another Day; An Anthology of the Bizarre, published by Ascent Aspirations Publishing. This particular acceptance was a pleasant surprise. I wasn’t sure if my work would qualify as ‘bizarre’ enough. But I took a chance anyway. And now this is the third anthology to include some of my work this year. It’s a wonderful, diverse collection of forty-five poems and twenty-two pieces of flash fiction.
Paul Beckman, Philip Gordon, Ann Howells, George Kusyj, Lynn Tait, and Meg Tuite also have work included in this collection. Quite an affecting gathering of poets and writers. The Anthology is available for order here:
http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/ascentsummer2014.htm
And I also want to mention the cover of this book. I absolutely love the cover art on this anthology. The artist is Patricia Carroll: http://www.patriciacarroll.ca/ Check out the rest of her work when you have a moment. It’s beautiful. Support your local artists whenever you can, my friends, as well as all the small presses out there publishing all our labors of love.
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Demise
He
died on a Tuesday...
dizzy
all day,
short
of breath,
pain
in his chest.
Staggering
and coughing,
he
left the door ajar
as
he stumbled across
the
barren threshold,
collapsing
on the floor
just
inside the entry.
It
was a full week
before
anyone found him,
a
neighbor driving by
seeing
the open door.
He
didn’t get out of his truck,
the
stench stopping him cold.
Decomposition
and prowling
predators
left nothing more
than
bones to cremate.
His
side of the plot
grew
thorny with weeds,
while
the other side remained
perpetually
clear … eternally
separated
from wife and son.
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