the falcon
      flew a straight path

(having forgotten
      that earth was a curve)

and discovered
      rarified air

and the feel
      of suffocation

the home
      it winged toward

was the orbit
      of its skeletal satellite

the roost
      of a solitary blind bird

Maude Larke

has come back to her own writing after years of ‘real’ work in the American, English and French university systems, analyzing others’ texts and films. She has also returned to the classical music world as an ardent amateur, after fifteen years of piano and voice in her youth. She has several short stories and poems, three novels, and a screenplay to offer so far. Her screenplay “Allargando” finished in the top ten in the 2009 IndieProducer Screenplay and Short Film Competition. She has been or will be published in Bird’s Eye reView, Breadcrumb Scabs, the 2010 and 2011 editions of the Syracuse Cultural Workers’ Women Artists Datebook, Naugatuck River Review, Oberon, Doorknobs and Bodypaint, The Story Teller, Flowers & Vortexes, Cyclamens and Swords and descant.


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