ashen
Michael Mc Aloran, September 2009
my eyes like blighted stars
the mirror dissolves flesh
our words like echoing laughter
the marrow of the sun
trace of a dissipating sky
all around us winged animals
the broken glass of anguish
your mistake my mistake
let us move along
I can taste your ashen tears
Michael Mc Aloran was Belfast born (1976), his family moved to the south of Ireland due to ‘The Troubles‘. He has travelled extensively throughout Europe, living for brief spells in both Holland and Italy. He elected to study Fine Art & Design, but left after one disillusioned year. He still continues to paint pretty obsessively when he can afford to. He has been writng poetry for almost a decade, but has only recently begun to submit. His work has been published by Poetry Monthly International, (U.K), The Gloom Cupboard, Lines Written W/A Razor, (Canada), and also by Counterexample Poetics. He has work forthcoming at The Delinquent, (U.K), Clockwise Cat, Deep Tissue, Origami Condom, and also at BlazeVox, (Fall Edition-2009). His first published book of poems, entitled ‘In The Black Cadaver Light’, is with Poetry Monthly Press, (U.K).
