Giver of cares. Author of “Red Stuff” and “The Shepherd of Princes” (Solum Literary Press).
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8 Mar 2024
A dozen years or so I wrote a story. Then I gave up on it until some friends got a hold of it and made me write it again, and again, and again, until it became a novel. Last summer some more friends, at Solum Literary Press, decided they want to help it become a book. Here it is:
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If you knew, if you actually spent time with people with developmental disabilities, you would not speak the way you do.
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Mike Bonikowsky retweeted
May 24
Today is the day! While copies have been arriving across the week, The Blackbird Ballad is officially released!
Thank you so much for your support and enthusiasm for this book so far! I really hope you love reading it as much as I loved writing it!
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Tell the story again
Though you tell it with swollen tongue.
Through split lips and shattered teeth.
Tell the story again
Though the sky outside grows dark
And the hour comes when no one can work.
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The buried and the drowned
The scattered and the burnt.
That he will come again
To sift our ashes from the burn-pit
Sort our bones from the ossuary
Our bits from the bellies of the worms.
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To bring us back from our wanderings
In the land of the dead
Back to the table, at last to be fed,
And tell us the story, again and again.
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Let us return to ash again,
Who burn like incense all day long.
Smoke that smells of all we’re made of
Rising up as an offering
Of childbirth and hospice care
Fresh-baked bread and barium
Of new-tilled earth and the graves beneath
Of all we’ve made, and done, and been.
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What better end to come to, then
When all the fuel has been consumed?
Than clean grey ash, and spiralled smoke,
And a good scent in His nostrils.
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Mike Bonikowsky retweeted
23 Dec 2025
Injustice looks real gruesome and those who benefit ghouls in the light of Christmas. As it should year round
23 Dec 2025
If you don’t space out during Christmas prep every so often to cry for families who are scared and hurting right now, and in anger at those in power, do you even live in the US?
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Mike Bonikowsky retweeted
12 Dec 2025
Still looking for a gift idea? We have plenty of recent releases and familiar favorites available, just in time for the Christmas season.
Visit our publications page to see more: solumpress.com/publications
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24 Nov 2025
Fall silent in a shouting age.
Do not be afraid
To take the colour of the earth,
And be joined with the hidden ones.
Go unseen among the glories.
Do not be afraid
To let yourself be made a sign,
For only those with eyes to see.
Die unknown among the famous.
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24 Nov 2025
Do not be afraid
To leave no trace behind you,
Except the shape your living made.
Let them find the paths you made,
Strange and uninterpreted.
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24 Nov 2025
A pattern to be puzzled over,
A mystery made to haunt
Their days and sleepless nights,
Until it teaches them to read
One more secret spelling
Of the hidden name of God.
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