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Ray Malone

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 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.

“Interval 189,” “Étude 15,” and “A Disappearance”

it whispers its way through to me, the night,
in the dying light of day, the things done,
the slow dissolve of sense, the list of smiles
ticked one by one from memory, a frown
or inimical face, best forgotten: Read more.

Issue 70

“Interval 101,” “Interval 103” and “Interval 114”

first step, to take up the pen,
ponder it,
as instrument—

a piece of paper then,
as white and infinite
as the light— Read more.

Issue 62

“A little light,” “Si-ghting 53” and “Letter—for Fernando Pessoa”

As for the darkness of eternity
a little light by your bed
might do as the wind
flings itself against your wall
weathering all away Read more.

Issue 49

“sounding 21”, “si-ghting 4” and “What”

tired of waiting he writes
while there’s timeand the white space
to trace the light’s line
from place to place
from all the corners of his mindfind
the dust of all that’s gathered there Read more.

Issue 20
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