My poem "A Long Time Afterward" has been accepted by Nightmare Magazine. It is a ghost poem whose subject was only ever alive on film: Johnny Ryan, played stone cold and queer to the bone by Wendell Corey in the deliriously Technicolor noir Desert Fury (1947). He haunts the end of the film and kept on haunting me past it. The day it was written, I read it for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
radiantfracture's birthday.
Today being my father's birthday actual,spatch and I walked around the reservoir before dinner.
( And I might fall in love with the next story I'm told. )
I did not sleep at all last night due to massive allergies and spent most of my morning spot-cleaning and doing laundry while wheezing badly, but there were good things in the day.
radiantfracture's birthday.Today being my father's birthday actual,
spatch and I walked around the reservoir before dinner.( And I might fall in love with the next story I'm told. )
I did not sleep at all last night due to massive allergies and spent most of my morning spot-cleaning and doing laundry while wheezing badly, but there were good things in the day.
