klward | New Work : "The Siege"

"The tenth week of the siege brings silence down

on us. The field before our walls seems clear,

yet they are there. Our faceless enemy,

well-nigh disguised by shade and blowing grass..."

Thus begins my new poem, published this month in the Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase Volume VII.

Edited by Stephanie Wytovich, this latest installment contains cutting edge versification from many of the best and darkest in the field, such as Colleen Anderson, Frank Coffman, David E. Cowen, Ashley Dioses, Lee Murray, Sarah Read, ankh_hpl , Marge Simon, Angela Yuriko Smith, Christina Sng and many, many more. I can't speak for any of them (although a read-through will turn up a certain sense of - theme), but this poem came to me during those first weeks in April. And that spider was absolutely real.