Ghosts don’t get more convincing or scary than this twin possession. Who hasn’t seen ‘shadows dancing in a corner … as shadows tend to do’ (126)? Nothing to see, settle down neck hairs, it’s you, ‘she doesn’t have to be there’ (1,026).
Month: March 2024
Paul Lynch 2023 Prophet Song (One World Publications ebook)
How quickly a new normal can overtake the fear of losing peace. In the shadow of Gaza the rapidity with which surveillance shifts to panic, rioting, homelessness, death. All the costs of war. Clutch your pearls as you read this, white woman.
The Arrival of the Gyros (2024)
They ordered her, this stiff pink corpse
Bare as a glare and way too heavy to lift.
I would say the bath is a coffin
Enamelled sepulchre
She might leave a dint in it.
The floral sheet is loose, her flesh is …
Literary Veganism 1 March 2024