Allison Seay

We stopped what we were doing to feature Allison Seay's great piece "The Queen", which we saw at FishhousePoems. It's lovely and dark and gothic while still retaining a classical, almost Romantic or Shelley-like sense of reality and earth.

Here's an excerpt:

[...]

Wild gold and dark red.  The color of snow under a streetlamp.

Or of smoke pluming [...]

I want to ask her

which is worse: dying

or being dead.  And then I can see her floating away

as down a hill of ice. [...]