<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%> Horror poetry by Perry

 



 

Writer's Block

by Lyn Perry



death and destruction
cliche my muse scoffs
I falter once more

the mummy will rise
banal she now cries
I weep at her feet

write what you know
my muse says with a knife
and shows me how

 

© Perry, 2008

PerryLyn Perry is the husband of one, father of two, and owner of three. . .cats! He enjoys reading, writing, and arithmetic. Well, two-out-of-three anyway--and that is why he edits Residential Aliens , a quarterly zine of speculative fiction with a spiritual dimension.