Bio

Tyson West lives in Eastern Washington in smoke and dust on the bottom of an Ice Age flood plain. He enjoys reciting his poetry to magpies and coyotes.

He has published poetry and speculative fiction in various genres in "Fast Forward Festival", Voluted Tales, and in anthologies "Warlords of the Asteroid Belt", and "You Can't Kill Me I'm Already Dead". He has had two poems nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry collection "Home-Canned Forbidden Fruit" is available from Gribble Press, http://www.greymaredit.com/. His novella "Mall of the Damned" was published in 2014 by Red Dashboard Publishing, LLC.

in
the
shape of
form poems
words and syllables
ferment transmute reconstitute
good poets cook a tasty dish
poetasters plop down plain patties of doggerel
but the great conjure such exquisite tastes one does not notice the contour of the plate