Featuring my prose poem "Dali Speaks to Me in Dreams", this ekphrastic prose anthology is also available via "The Ekphrastic Review" in PDF (free to download). Editors: Lorette C. Luzajic & Clare MacQueen..

"The Memory Palace" (Ekphrastic Prose Anthology)

"If you were looking at this forest in a picture, you would not see the ants, but know that they are there. There were ravens and starlings, too, in the branches but a moment before, now startled into flight into an invisible sky far above ..."

The Dream of Fly Agaric

Gliding through the half-dark, this preternatural humidity caresses my skin like an unseen lover. I am the moth’s muffled flight through twilight, borne by the hum and whir of bicycle wheels. I’m seeking the moon — or hoping it finds me ...

Nightfall in a Fenced Arcadia

A crow poem in the spirit of the absurd:

"If only I had heeded
the signs—
the unsettling of feathers
at the edges of consciousness,
like carrion birds; restless
from the first scent
of carnage on the wind ... "


If Only the Crow

"The Treachery of Memory" appears in the "Darkest Endings" Issue (December 2023). Download the PDF (free) or purchase a hard copy of this gorgeously Gothic magazine.

"I hear them, stirring in the shadows..."

The Treachery of Memory

.... I’m a postmodern paradox: I participate / I resist. I’m still a she-pronoun / too damn cis for my own good / maybe one day I’ll evolve to they / boundaries bleeding / in the gendered minefield / in the skin I’m in / I’m a walking contradiction.

Image Matrix

Hot colours of molten summer run together like no other season in recollection. Revolving days like childhood bicycle wheels—ghosted frames worn out by endless mid-afternoon adventures, buried in nostalgia’s waterholes where you swam, diving deep ...

Melissa Coffey

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