Phillip Stecco is a 50 year old Michigan native, who has worked for a nonprofit organization for nearly a quarter of a century. His main interests are reading, writing, film noir, and the enjoyment of a certain Canadian beer. Phillip’s favorite authors include Thomas Ligotti, Philip K. Dick, and Jack Vance. The two things which sustain his life are absurdity and dark humor. Since he is highly critical of his own voice these days, he seldom commits his poetry to paper. Most of his free time is spent lurking at Thomas Ligotti Online, where he is a site moderator under the guise of G. S. Carnivals. Phillip has devoted much personal effort to the archiving of Thomas Ligotti quotations. A recent diversion has been the creation of clues and answers for Ligottian crossword puzzles.
Phillip Stecco’s poem Curtains will be included in the upcoming issue of The Ashen Eye. Here’s another one of his poems to give you a taste of his work:
by Phillip Stecco
Piece by blessed piece,
The new project begins;
The onset of whiteness
Is a solemn promise
Of its own completion.
I am wholly drawn in
To this spectacle of setting out;
I am likewise initiate
And bound now to ends
Of my own design.
I am a setting-out
Today: I am the promise
Of my own completion:
Now in piecemeal time
I set out honest and pure
To give failure a good name.
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