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Naked Howling Freedom

@michellejoygallagher

Poetry © Michelle Joy Gallagher

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michellejoygallagher

Feb 3

New Zine!

My poetry appears in Swampgas #1, a new zine done exclusively by people in the fediverse that features metal, fantasy, art, poetry, and stories. Download issue #1 here Swampgas issue #1

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michellejoygallagher

Apr 7, 2025

Library on Fire

My latest volume of poetry, Library on Fire is 395 pages of burning poetry! Only 2 copies left at Nihtgengapress.com. Thank you for supporting an independent publisher and poet! The cover of Library on Fire by Matt Soffe “Become” from Library on Fire

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#books #indie #Poem #poetry #self publish #stars

michellejoygallagher

Jan 18, 2023

An Embrace

Long heldEstimatesSuggestOur star,In mainsequence,Will burnFor anotherFive billionYears.And at that time,A roilingEmber,Swollen fromFireswornDevouringOf elementsIt willEmbraceThe last traceOf us,The dust thatKnit the latticeOf our form,And welcomeUs home.

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#am writing #ancient #death #love #New #poetry #space #stars #time #writing

michellejoygallagher

Jan 2, 2023

Miracles

“Tom’s truck slowed and then stopped on the side of the road near where Marilyn and Henry stood. “Fuck.” He said through gritted teeth as he raised a hand in greeting. Tom climbed out of his truck and waved back, then started across the field toward him. Henry busied himself during the brief walk Tom made across the field from the road. It would be too awkward standing there watching him get…

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michellejoygallagher

Dec 28, 2022

Satellites

7:30pm and the sun had fully set. In that ocean of dark, and familiar landmarks of stars and planets, a satellite. I thought: This is machinery. This is in free fall above me. In the 80s when we would lay out and watch the night sky, my parents would point them out for me. Faint twirling embers. They were a rarity then. Scarce. Within a few minutes, a brighter satellite emerged from the horizon,…

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#life #night #prose #satellites #sky #stars #ufo

michellejoygallagher

Dec 22, 2022

#1!!!

Thanks to your readership, Disremembering is now #1 in the Poetry About Nature category on Amazon! Thank you so much for your continued support of my artistic endevours! It means the world to me! You can still get a copy free through Friday 12/23 HERE

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michellejoygallagher

Dec 21, 2022

Mastodon!

I’ve started a new account at Mastodon! Make sure to add me there if you have an account! If you don’t, I highly suggest making one. It’s an amazing environment for artists of all types and far better than Twitter. It offers the same microblogging experience without ads! The future is the fediverse!

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michellejoygallagher

Dec 21, 2022

Sylacauga

Sylacauga is an anthology of poetry, speculative fiction, and horror based around the 1954 meteor event over Sylacauga, Alabama. You can now purchase a copy now on Amazon: a.co/d/aMlJXgV Sylacauga features poetry by Leah McNaughton Lederman and Stefani Manard and short stories by David Brown, Christopher Charlton, Stan Konopka, Tracy Konopka, Shelly Van Allen and Myself. Cover art by Matt Soffe!

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michellejoygallagher

Dec 21, 2022

Free Kindle Book!

From now until Friday 12/23, my poetry book Disremembering is free to download! Click HERE to get your copy now!

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michellejoygallagher

May 6, 2022

Five six sixteen

Guy on the street corner wearing an army helmet. He nods at traffic. When I arrived 3 hours ago, he was there. He’s still there as I am leaving. He has long grey hair and a grey beard and he reminds me of my father, had he lived long enough to grey completely. He doesn’t rave, he isn’t angry. He simply nods at every car that passes him. It’s a 3 lane street at rush hour. He makes eye contact if…

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#apathy #art #blog #chaos #dad #death #depression #emotion #existence #experience #grief #human #journal #life #loss #love #mourning #prose #sadness #sentiment #space #stars #thoughts #time #writers #writing

michellejoygallagher

Mar 3, 2022

An Epitaph

Will the earth With my bones Swallowed Find the marrow Lacks? Will the grey Veined clay Gather in the Defects? Will the stones Laugh? Carried in the water In rivulets With the weight of Evaporated eons. In red, roaring wastes, Will the water wait? Carving earth in Mountain and canyon, What will it make Of the hollow things that Once held this shape? When scattered Will I…

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#am writing #death #entropy #grief #loss #love #mental illness #mourning #New #Poem #poet #poetry #sadness #writing

michellejoygallagher

Feb 1, 2022

Aggregate

Moss covered stone Sun beckoned The snow runs off, Stays in shadow. Petrichor and Woodsmoke. Its said to Follow beauty, But forgets. Swift water flows, Slows at the bend In the middle frozen Hand outstretched Hard pack and Hardpan Veins of quartz Veins of clay Dust and ash Pockmarked with Grinding rock Laden and vacant A thousand years. Shot rock In granite In agate In…

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#am writing #ancient #dad #depression #entropy #existence #experience #grief #indie #life #mourning #nature #New #Poem #poet #poetry #sadness #stars #time #women #wood #writers #writing

michellejoygallagher

Dec 7, 2021

Arbor

Tree removal is a violent act, even when done by a skilled arborist. There’s something hardwired into me that knows we shouldn’t destroy something that provides for life on so many levels. When I was a child, I would cry and obsess over the sight. Imagining the tree in pain, and the animals being hewn down along with it. I especially worried about the birds that’d made nests in the tree,…

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#depression #experience #grief #life #loss #mental illness #New #prose #sadness

michellejoygallagher

Dec 7, 2021

Relic

The stars are a fragile constant. Their permanence only an illusion. A trick performed by size and scale and time. Ghosts in the sky. Our sun is in main sequence. Main sequence means our star is of average size and luminosity. A flickering candle, glimmering in a cathedral at midnight. It’ll take billions of years for it to decay to the point that, when swollen, it absorbs us. Our minds aren’t…

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#astrophysics #death #existence #existentialism #experience #grief #human #life #living #loss #love #New #prose #relics #ruins #space #stars #stellar life cycle #universe #writing

michellejoygallagher

Dec 7, 2021

Disremembering

I have recently released a volume of collected poetry spanning 2014-2021. This visceral and revealing collection is available at the following links: Digital and unsigned physical copies: Amazon Signed physical copies: Etsy & Nihtgenga Press

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#books #death #grief #indie #indie poetry #life #loss #love #mental illness #New #poetry #poetry books #poetry collection #self publish #space #women who write #writers #writing

michellejoygallagher

Nov 30, 2021

Ladies of Horror - November

Ladies of Horror – November

Jack’s Regretby Michelle Joy Gallagher “Jack hadn’t slept since he drowned Elise. He hadn’t set out to hurt her. She’d just said so many things that wounded him in short order, leaving him no time to recover. The passion and fire in her that first drew his eye quickly left him burned. It left no working patience in him. They had been walking along the shore when she’d brought up Beatrice.…

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#am writing #creepy #fiction #flash fiction #horror #indie #ladies of horror #New #odd #prose #sea #short story #strange #weird #women #women in horror #writers #writing

michellejoygallagher

Nov 29, 2021

The Big Freeze

A part of me is perpetually afraid that whatever was within me that allowed me to write will one day go and not come back. An aberration that will finally and coldly be corrected. The theory of the big freeze posits that our universe will end when entropy increases to a point of maximum value. Our inexplicably vast universe will become so large, gasses will be too thinly spread out to allow for…

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#art #blog #life #New #writer’s block #writing

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