After the Blackbird Sings : Writing

The First Stone

The First Stone

A Poem by After the Blackbird Sings


Flushed fingers fit between my own, Ebbing between gentle slide and torrid pressure. Hands pull mine along, guiding to breasts, down sides, and ov..
Soulless

Soulless

A Poem by After the Blackbird Sings


It's all visual and stuff...
I Am Small

I Am Small

A Poem by After the Blackbird Sings


The flames on the candle invite the hands of the clock to tea I am small. They'll bicker and argue And vote on the number of pages in a book they..
The Holy Faithful

The Holy Faithful

A Poem by After the Blackbird Sings


I know she prays to God like a little girl before She crawls into bed and we worship, Suspecting all the while that thundercloud rider has been hold..
In the Last Days I Feel the Breath of Resurrection

In the Last Days I Feel the Breath of Resurrection

A Story by After the Blackbird Sings


A weekend as a CNA in a nursing home.
Drift Away

Drift Away

A Poem by After the Blackbird Sings


The respirator breathing taps a kind of rhythm and poetry To this death Watching, waiting We're all coming to an end called "Stuck in the Mu..
The Good Lion

The Good Lion

A Story by After the Blackbird Sings


Two policemen search for the poetry in justice through their current case and in the tension of their competing styles.