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Sample Poems

Tony Danza Sucks

I just realized 
Tony Micelli from Who’s the Boss?
is just a bad Arthur Fonzarelli 
impersonation.

Tony Danza sucks,
I think to myself.

The old Redpath Sugar silo
a few streets away
sitting oddly stoic just 
after midnight.

(First appeared in Cajun Mutt Press)

The Troll

He lives in a tent under the bridge
across from the pulp and paper mill 
that leads into town.

A dirty port-wine-stained face,
soaking his clothes in the runoff 
from the plant.

Shitting in the surrounding bush,
referred to as The Troll by most the 
town’s residents.

Something to scare the kiddies with
until they are old enough to do 
some scaring of their own.

Devils in the Canyon

Furnished for devils 
of an unrivalled 
hell.

Cradles of milk,
the womb holds it well.

Ecstatic faces,
wet gardens appall.

Crying child
of the Fall.

(First appeared in Himalaya Diary)

© Ryan Quinn Flanagan

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Author Biography

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author who lives in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His work has been published both in print and online in such places as: The New York Quarterly, Rusty Truck, Evergreen Review, Red Fez, Horror Sleaze Trash and The Blue Collar Review. He enjoys listening to the blues and cruising down the TransCanada in his big blacked out truck.