candle
the silent carousel
a frozen corpse
the opened wound of the eye
the stretched skin of a sky of blue
the arousal of death
extracted fingernails
a head of earth of bloody soil
the scarring winds
aligned dead trees
exigency of existence
a stolen kiss of breathless nothingness
my heart
naked as a red bulb
suckling upon the pale barbed nipple of death
the silence impossible
extinguish vile candle by which the night is revealed
Michael Mc Aloran was Belfast born, (1976) His work has appeared in various print and online zines, including Carcinogenic Poetry, Calliope Nerve, The Recusant, Sex & Murder Magazine, In Between Altered States, Horror, Sleaze & Trash, Negative Suck, Graffiti Kolkata, Pratishedhak, Prothamoto, Danse Macabre, amphibi.us, The Plebian Rag, Full of Crow, Gloom Cupboard, Gutter Eloquence, Fashion For Collapse, Fragile Arts Quarterly, Clockwise Cat, Sein Und Werden, Milk Sugar, The Medulla Review, Counterexample Poetics, Heavy Bear, Indigo Rising, Widowmoon Press, Mastodon Dentist, etc. In the past year he has authored a number of chapbooks, including 'The Gathered Bones', (Calliope Nerve Media), 'Final Fragments', (Calliope Nerve Media), & 'The Death-Streaked Air' (Virgogray Press), 'Debris', (Erbacce-Press) & ‘The Rapacious Night‘, (Calliope Nerve Media), 'Unto Naught', (Erbacce-Press). A full-length collection of poems, 'Attributes', was published by 'Desperanto' in May 2011...