My Beautiful Twin Sister

3/22/2018

My Beautiful Twin Sister

Twenty months between us
Made you the boss
But my twin just the same
I gazed so adoringly
Into your dark power.
You braved everything
First;
Schooled boyfriends
Husbands, children
Teachers
Bent administrations to your will.
For my benefit you
Deconstructed history,
Logic, told me
Who to read and what to think;
Volunteering for a better world -
Protester, Marcher, you
Learned Amslan
Just to empathize;
Conquered mountains
Just for fun;
Shifting derailleurs, snowshoeing
Surefooted through many a
Frosty season.
Inside you
Were just like me;
Scared, hesitant, fragile
Pushing yourself out there;
A revelation of
Impossible courage
Giving me a lifelong template
To admire.

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Alysse Aallyn

the 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.

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