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Welcome to Gnat Smoke Press
Gnat Smoke Press is a publication company dedicated to bringing you the finest quality poetry and fiction from John Ryland. As a southern small press, we revel in southern hospitality and great southern writing. We are unique, perhaps a little quirky, but we always aim to please. Stay a while, have a look around, just be careful which curtain you pull back. Some of them are hiding ghosts.
THIS WAY TO MADNESS
Awakened by a deafening silence
ripped from maddening dreams.
My neighbor’s dog begins to howl,
deep in the night, he can hear my screams.
It is but a gentle tug, like a giant magnet,
That draws me to that place, of pain and sadness
It is but a gentle whisper, like the wind
that beacons me, this way to madness.
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