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Alysse Aallyn
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Alysse Aallyn is the author of four well-received thrillers, Find Courtney, Depraved Heart, Woman Into Wolf and I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead, one historical novel (Devlyn), a book of short stories (Awake Till the End) and three volumes of poetry.
Hot #Prowl

Don’t wake up.
I surveil by night
Your chiseled torso

Touching things
You touched,
Listening to your apnea -
Turning before you turn.

Making peace with all my choices.
It’s worth everything;
Winning in divorce
Invisibility.

My
Hard-won
Superpower.
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July 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
#Haiku: Pro Forma

Designated victim
Has deep pockets
Fresh brain
Unplugged
Self defense
July 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
#Haiku: Depression

Tired of
Same old clay
Mucked feet?
Try
Bottom-top
Deep clean;
Birth feet
Still there.
July 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#Haiku: Beatitude

Blessed are the
Sharers; for theirs
Is the kingdom of
Picnics
Amen
July 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
#Haiku: Sprezzatura

Something’s a bit off –
Unsettling -
Artist’s presence
Touch of weird whimsy
July 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
#Haiku: The Future Is Now

Quotidian
Maps built
From shreds of
Daily goals -
Invisible
Glue
July 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
#Haiku: Blinders

Is vision your trigger?
Don’t look;
Hiding the universe
Won’t help you
July 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
#Haiku: Invocation

I pray for you: may the
Fire inside
Burn stronger than the fire
Outside
July 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
#Haiku: Dragonfly Ghosting

Female dragonflies
Fake death
To exit blind dates:
Extreme but
OK.
July 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#Haiku: Hiding In the Back of Class

You can’t see me:
Twisting
Body forms the argument
I am
Losing
July 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
#Haiku: Artificial Intelligence

Mimics
Spew feebler copies till
Randomized;
Spawn
Mutates
God’s
Future
June 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
#Haiku: Unfriending

Mirror mirror;
Frenemy.
Too much like me
Enemy;
Cancel she.
June 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#Haiku: Decline & Fall

Grand
Delusions of Omnipotence:
Perfidious, meet
Posthumous
June 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
#haiku: Cautionary Tale

Life is forged -
Hammer & spark;
Autopsied
Chrysalis
Is Waste
June 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
#Haiku: Big Bang Theory

Two black holes approach -
Spying, eyeing, trying
To strike up
A big bang
June 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#Haiku: Superstition

Treasure Learning
Compassion &
Trust -
Bastion against
These Dark Ages
June 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
#Haiku: Empty Coat Sleeves

Dress speaks
Volumes;
Says
Help this poor fool
Frozen in some 40’s
Timewarp
June 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
#Haiku: Alive

Energy
Boils cells
Floods flesh
Pervades brain
Bubbles pores:
Ignites
Being
June 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM