5Aug 2026 Tyler Malone

We, Matter

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“god died & his death was the life of the world” – Philipp Mainländer All we know is god’s suicide note read in the language of a love letter. Babbling... Read More
editors note:

Reach for that doughnut, hole and all. (This poem opens Tyler’s latest collection, Son of a Chicken Killer, published by your friends here at Mad Swirl Press. Get one for yourself.) – mh clay

11Apr 2026 Tyler Malone

Black Mass Grass

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Bullnettle clutters tar buckets of synthetic motor oil where I see my face in a black mirror before it bled out my front pocket in a black mass missing black... Read More
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This mass is a mess; not for the fainthearted. Dig! – mh clay

25Dec 2025 Tyler Malone

Life on Hallmark Channel

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History’s living end in a motel room is a dying Christmas tree, leaning as a spotty cow on a fence blaming iced-over wire barbs for stealing the horizon. The executive... Read More
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Come alive, it’s a special day, they said so! – mh clay

6Dec 2025 Tyler Malone

The Names for East and West

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Cross the sun/ Lost to shadow to say/ You know/ I might join ICE/ Steal the sun from space/ Box souls/ No table/ No sustenance/ No new humanity/ No plants... Read More
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Give it back before it’s spent. – mh clay

17Jul 2025 Tyler Malone

Life As Then & There

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“I’m pretty sure I’m connected to the moon.” — David Lynch A stargazer offers layers of skinned cat’s eyes reflecting the dark side of a super blood moon crystallizing across... Read More
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Soliloquy from a stowaway on Spaceship Earth. – mh clay

23Dec 2024 Tyler Malone

Some Moses

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for Jordan No humans where public works paint downtown buildings to tell the poor Merry Christmas! with the gift of grafted skin to sell for pills from Chevy Malibu broke... Read More
editors note:

A fine anthem to Christmas commercialism and erstwhile altruists. – mh clay

23Nov 2024 Tyler Malone

Life As Hoping Kevin Bacon Is In This One

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The Pear Tree Cinema Club was an orange extension cord that electrified black and white scenes where televisions didn’t grow on nights given to the grayscales of my mom’s outdoor... Read More
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Mother-Son dynamics, televised with six degrees of separation. – mh clay

25Jul 2024 Tyler Malone

The Only Funny Thing About a Cock Fight Is Its Name

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Genesis Sunday sunrise, when god slept through erratic bullet holes shot behind the sun’s back. What was left of themselves, flags blessed in barbwire dance living property line alongside peach... Read More
editors note:

With one death to give, why give it to a chicken outfit like this? – mh clay

13Apr 2024 Tyler Malone

Godsland

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for little brother Spent shotgun shells under a telecom tower of vultures. Little brother climbs to see homegrown nowhere next door as blood collects itself for another next life in... Read More
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Proof of life, this life; it’s for the birds. – mh clay

22Dec 2023 Tyler Malone

Voices Without Sounds

Beautified with holiday lights, the last of the year’s leaves fall. Some are yellow but entire trees are also solid green with one lone orange leaf that seems to know the season. Not even trees know what’s going on while mosquitoes disappear and carolers from Heavensgate Christian Academy arrive with... Read More