A little news and a poem

News first: I have a friend who is going to take over editing duties on the first book.  Hopefully, this means the book gets completed sooner and in your hands.  It really should be a fun experience and will help me grow in my own writing I'm sure.  It always helps to get other perspectives on what is or isn't working.  So be excited about that.

Here is an older poem I thought I'd share that I enjoyed writing:

“Du arme Sau”

A roaring pain

Half of my mid-section is gone

All I can feel is pain

The senses have never been,

Alert like this

Next sensation comes

With warmth and sputters

I can feel it rising

All the way to my throat

Clogging my airways

Lungs gasp for air

Only to soak in the thick red

I gargle blood as if it was water

A cool hand jerks me back down

I don’t remember sitting up

The voice said something

I struggle, but my ears are ringing

So loud, my body crashes

With every second

My eyes flutter to a gray color

I see his dirty coat

No longer white

All is gray

I see her again

Her words icy and blue

“Alles wird gut,” said she

I didn’t believe her, those eyes

Then the most sensational cool came

I woke in the dark

Feeling almost weightless, yet still

Then like a slap

Everything was white

The barbaric thing took me

And caged me

Then she came again

The familiar gray

She held something so painful

I tried to get away

But my stubby fat got in the way

The cool steel punctured me

There was no cooing

She only barked,

“du arme Sau”

And I wailed with pain

Again

Second time she said that

© T. S. Graveline