#Haiku: At the Movies
Nerve ends
Flail;
We feel ourselves
As others see us;
We are the
Others
Nerve ends
Flail;
We feel ourselves
As others see us;
We are the
Others
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#Haiku: Shock Therapy My ex loves to Spring Surprises: Passive-aggressive Double whammy  #Haiku: Fairy Tales – The Animal Groom No turning back. Lips sprout Fur; clawed Conqueror shadows The wedding den  #Haiku: Regrettable Vistas Croquet clogged Parterre ensnared Trauma topiary Hirsute Partout  #Haiku: Protective Coloration When airing Avoid baring Blend in with your world Leave rebel flag furled  #Haiku: Senate Hearings If you’re not At the table you’re On the menu; Splayed, Laid, Played Betrayed  #Haiku: Bamboozlers Are On Record All The Time Twitter prognosticates your Grid: doubters Entitle bunco artists  #Haiku: Shotcaller What I say goes: Dominance creates My existence in Others’ eyes.  #Haiku: Deception Pass State Park Dusk: Fireflies descend Mothers attend Fathers defend Spirits ascend  #Haiku: Devil Take the Hindmost Doors close If you’re Last Must be your fault; Evil to him who Evil thinks  |
Alysse Aallynthe author of four well-received thrillers, Find Courtney, Depraved Heart, Woman Into Wolfand I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead, one historical novel (Devlyn) and a book of short stories (Awake Till the End.) She has three published books of poetry – The Sacred Quiver, The Hot Skin and The Five Wounds and edited another (The Feathered Violin.) She trained in theatre at Circle in the Square Theatre School and Martha Graham School of Dance. She appeared in the part of Isabella in Jean Giraudoux’s The Enchanted at the New Yorker Theatre. She has held writing fellowships at Brooklyn College and LaSalle University. Her novel Depraved Heart won a 2011 CT Press Club fiction award and her play Queen of Swords was a semi-finalist in the 2014 National Arts Council First Play award. Woman Into Wolf was a semi-finalist for The National Playwrights Conference (2016). She has also appeared as a crime commentator on IV-TV’s Blood Relatives. Her play, Let’s Speak Vietnamese was published in Dramatika Magazine. Other plays she’s written are The Honey & the Pang about Emily Dickinson’s posthumous career, Cuck’d– a modern Othello, and Caving, in which the theatre is transformed into a cave for a spelunking dare. Her latest play, Rough Sleep, (based on her novel I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead) was produced by Manhattan Repertory Theatre (W. 45thSt) April 18, 19, 20, 2019. Her newest poetry collection, Haunted Wedding will be appearing in 2022 from Thriller Library. Archives
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