New Poetry by A.J. Huffman

I Was Invented

as a destination

to discover, conquer, claim

as your own.  You were

looking for picket fences,

shades of presumption,

perfected picturesque

nostalgia.  Together

we found something angular,

garishly modern,

an arrow full of exotic

poison.  You swallowed

hatred.  I assimilated

being lost.  Our paradise

took a wrong turn and caused

our minds to burn.

- A.J. Huffman 2015

A.J. Huffman has published eleven solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses. Her new poetry collections, Another Blood Jet (Eldritch Press) and A Few Bullets Short of Home (mgv2>publishing) are now available from their respective publishers.   She has two additional poetry collections forthcoming: Degeneration from Pink Girl Ink, and A Bizarre Burning of Bees from Transcendent Zero Press.  She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and has published over 2200 poems in various national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, and Kritya. She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press. www.kindofahurricanepress.com