Poet Greg Schwartz fixes copiers by day and writes horror by night. His poetry has appeared in publications such as Talebones, Black Petals, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, and Tales of the Talisman. A chapbook of his horror poetry, titled “Bits and Pieces”, was released last summer by Spec House of Poetry. Whenever he has the time, Greg reviews books and magazines for Whispers of Wickedness, and he’s also the staff cartoonist for Shadow Poetry’s SP Quill Magazine.
One of Greg’s works will be featured in upcoming premiere issue of The Ashen Eye. To provide you with a taste of his work beforehand, here’s a poem titled Bats.
by Greg Schwartz
alone
at your desk
blank sheet of paper
taunting you
while thoughts
swirl around your head
like bats
too quick for you to grab
until one gets careless
flies too close
and you snatch it
clutch it with both hands
squeeze out its lifeblood
onto the paper
not letting go
until every last drop
is spilled from the thing
and it falls to the floor
a dried empty husk
now you’re staring at the paper
soggy and red
scattered clumps of tissue
like islands
and once you clean it up
organize the mess
pick out stray bone fragments
you just might have
a poem.
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