Bio
Ray Malone is an Irish writer and artist living in Berlin, Germany, working on developing a highly-reduced aesthetic through a series of projects exploring the expressive (lyric) potential of minimal forms, based on various musical and/or literary models. His work has been published in a number of print and online journals in the US, UK and Ireland.
Ray Malone
Cinder 31
Against time, the wall thickens,
taps dull to thuds, echoes dim,
a knock hints, at nothing,
the ear dries, its sea, sea, ebbs
from the shore, the air shifts from
foot to foot, pacing the floor,
the heart hears it all, holds it
all, in the palm of the hand,
holding out against the sand