Join Us for the HamLit “After Dark” Book Launch Reading

Please come out to Brandywine for a book reading. I’ll be there reading my creepy new poem, “You Were Never Really There.” Thank you, HamLit Editors, Rochelle, David, and Joe.

Poem: Susan’s Monsoon Afternoon

  Susan’s Monsoon Afternoon By Shannon P. Laws The window did not care that it was open Neither did the curtains concern themselves with being wet The wind was indifferent it blows where it wants But Susan’s hand cared as it slapped the window shut That hand connected to the arm the arm to theContinueContinue reading “Poem: Susan’s Monsoon Afternoon”

Poem: Nightly Spirit

    Tickle my ear at three in the morning Brush the bottom of my foot with mist   See the dreams I carry that do not rhyme Remember the fallen that rest in the corner of the eye A phase-shift out of reach, stuck in the web of mind   Take the tack offContinueContinue reading “Poem: Nightly Spirit”