Friday, August 15, 2025

The Sickness, The City by Taryn Allan

An animal sound

Run through a vocoder

A cry of pain

Synthesised into ambivalence

The sound of extinction

As elevator music

It haunts the streets and alleys

The tops of the tower-blocks

And the metastasis of corridors

The sound of night

In a world gone mad

Time and space and memory

In dementia

The wailing flutter of the vulture’s wings of angels

Who can no longer carry you home

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Taryn Allan scribbles things into notebooks. Occasionally, those scribblings coalesce and have been known to appear in such places as the Horror Writers Association’s Poetry Showcase, Horror Sleaze Trash, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, and The Beatnik Cowboy, amongst others.