my poetry/writing
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‘Photographs’ – writing exercise
I love using images to generate language – and this week in the weekly writing workshop I facilitate for people in addiction recovery, we looked at five photographs – three by Mary Ellen Mark, and two by William Eggleston: and we tried to use these images as inspiration to generate poetry (poems). I don’t always…
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Three Prose Poems Featured on Occulum
I have three prose poems up over at the wonderful Occulum site @theocculum – go read them at the link Xx https://occulum.wordpress.com/2017/07/14/three-poems-by-miggy-angel/
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Three Poems Featured In Issue 11 Of Sundog Lit Journal
Very happy and excited to have three of my poems published in Sundog Lit – go read them here!
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Free-Write Poem With Picture #3
Today’s her birthday and we are arcs of light in the afterdark pharmacy, playing paper, scissors, stone with the Ativan machine. Our one religion of breaking and entering. Her reflection in blue-grain tinsel through the moon-tomb windowpane is a Renaissance painting of classic, anaesthetic proportions. Lowering the sulphur and the hovering lanterns of illuminated barbiturates,…
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Free-Write Poem With Picture #2
If she keeps notsaying the thing is that as good as sayingit, she wandered. Hands, fluent in silence. The awning kept an awful countenance, contemptuous above the concrete. Broken bricks in forlorn walls toothed the street-mouth, little sore-dust asphalt sharks that dart beneath the tenements. And who amongst us was betrothed to the truth, she…
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Free-Write Poem With Picture
Beneath her feet, the city gossips, tarmac tongues whispering the hymn of her returning. Every sodden yard of hard-mooned kerbstone unfurls to her insoles, black locale knows the girl & her swell cobalt mind so well: the hackneyed princess of slagheaps and monolithic mole-hills of one-mil syringes. Doom-town stare of a million methadone-dawns. – Miggy…
MIGGY ANGEL 