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. His novella "Mall of the Damned" was published in 2014 by Red Dashboard Publishing, LLC.

it's
so
abrupt
the change wrought
by the pink capsules
she and i anticipated
morning tea, evening chablis, lovely tropical trips

i too clung to canons that the unit be the end
– she no longer wishes to walk
on lake ice below falls
where water
dirks off
the
cliff

now
her
changing
flesh amends
her mind and promise
ticking toward an end she grows
more cloistered hoarding each atom of breath-beam of light

i cannot savor the swirl of time that trickles down
from the crags and cliffs left ahead
unless willing to
gamble a
final
free
fall