Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 12/29/23

Secret

A blank page
Filled With

Hard-to-open
Night

Thoughts…

If anything can be
Said of
The silence of misery,

It’s the caring of
Others
Led to such
Mute
Consideration.

However, with me
Pen-in-hand
It should
Be simple —
More real
To
The
Author.

All of us run away to
Hills of ignored
Self-denied
Faults.

A page is reflective of
The booth marked
With confessions.

We choose what is known…

The rest to ourselves.

©2023 Leland Locke All rights reserved.

A.L. Locke lives in a cabin in North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains. He shares his life with his wife, Tara, and their 10 rambunctious dogs, two goats, too many chickens, and aquarium fish. He has been published both in national and international publications, including Writer’s Digest and various literary journals. Notes from the Night Desk is a column he works on vigorously and tries to publish daily on WordPress.com, and has a book series under the same title. More volumes of published and previously unpublished work will appear in the future. His column is also included in Night Owl Narrative, a new monthly magazine from Cajun Mutt Press. Issue no.1 will be available on January first.

Mr. Locke incorporates the Gonzo way of Life into his everyday responsibilities and tomfoolery. From the concrete-jungle swamps of Texas, the high Rocky Mountains of Montana, to living homeless on the cruel and crippled streets of Youngstown, Ohio, A, L. Locke has kept up writing in haunted notebooks, typed-up the words on pages fed into the mouths of typewriters, and exquisitely pecked electronic aphorisms and anagrams into various computers.