Ray Malone is an Irish writer and artist living in Berlin, Germany, working on developing a highly-reduced aesthetic in 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 numerous print and online journals in the US, UK and Ireland.

Ray Malone

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Steps 11

let's listen to the rain
and what to say about it,
stop talking for a while—

something continues, come
sleep, or a sudden sadness,
the light fading—

where I was when night fell,
I couldn't tell, my tongue
so tied—

it never occurred, that thing
called thought, in its echoing,
its well of emptiness—

when it was morning, in wonder
we saw
the world was wet