Stories by Erika Byrne-Ludwig
- A dress
- The Ballad of the Summer Grains
- The bamboo stick
- The Noise
- The Dog
- The curtain
- The Memory
- Walking with the Moon
- The portrait
- The poplar
- With Eyes Closed
- The Donkey
- The patient
- The White Cloud
- The Femur
- The River
- One Of These Dreams ...
- When I was little
- The lyre bird
- The Morning
- The visitors
- Him
- "Don't look so sad"
Erika Byrne-Ludwig's Favorites
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- Danger Above, Danger Below
- The Ogontz Branch
- once upon a time in Sumeria (2)
- To my own two feet
- Strange and Silent Hands
- Cabrito
- She
- Napomo 17: April 7-12
- When the wind/sky really is God
- Hands of a City
- How To Train Mules
- Boots/Weather Predictions (Two Poems)
- When I'm Sixty-Four (Semantic Satiation)
- Dada- Age 1
- You Can Keep the Keys: Song
- The Beast Remembers Its Broken Promise and Starts to Cry
- Love?
- Peace in the Backyard
- Discards
- Is This Seat Taken?
- The Weirdo Melody Has a Meltdown of Its Own
- Sonnet I
- Circular Motions
- SoliTaire
- To the Manchester Children's Monster
- Against the Wall
- Away
- The Cliffs
- castaway
- Zombies to Mars
- Absence
- Heartlong
- Silence
- (Platter of) Figs and Oranges Set to a Warped Organ Fanfare from Long Ago
- The River Flows
- an occultation casts a narrow silence
- Moon Talk
- small pleasures
- Death Is No Big Deal.
- He Sure Can Play Piano with Those Giant Lobster Hands
- The World is Bigger
- the ethics of graffiti
- Rescue
- no-name time of day
- Latté plus
- Imminent Weather, Five AM
- AntsBirdsCoffee
- Laughing All The Way To The 2020 Election
- Desire
- Wanna Bet?
- Space Program
- Bloomington/Normal a Hidden Camelot
- Missed Connections
- Regina Road
- The Overfilled Silence
- Mommy
- Star Heart
- Just the Facts
- Old Penny
- My Boyfriend Believed in Aliens
- My dark job history
- Sorrow
- Serving
- Bookmark
- Why I Love You
- Everything the Traffic Will Allow
- The Story You Wanted
- To Do List
- Domestic Sketches
- Politics
- Transcription of Audio: Meeting with Miss Jewel Eppinette
- How Poets Die
- Bring Down the Babies
- The Swell After
- A Brief Conversation With A Man Who Fell Off a Cliff
- Pancakes
- What We Know but Can’t Describe
- Spider and Fly Cafe
- Intro to Philosophy
- Fat Cats, Happiness and Laptop Love -- What I Learned From Magazines This Week
- Musk
- Sonnet 12
- The Mender
- Little Oddities
- On Global Warming
- the honey ant of Kaapa Tjampitjimpa
- Everything that's ever been said about clouds
- Five Poems
- The Stop
- I Channel Quevedo
- Despite Your Faith
- Inmate Words
- Jackpot
- Fake Empire (Thanks Matt)
- Soft Voices
- Gehryspeak
- Reflections
- August, now and after
- Elvis, Mosquitoes & Marilyn Monroe -- What I Learned From Magazines This Week
- Life Apart
- The Dry World
- Threshold
- The Fetishist
- Harvesting Sunflowers
- The City's Not For You
- Lucidity
- waves at least this tall
- Meditation after a Sengai Painting
- Larger Than Life
- May the Glad Inherit
- One Another
- Selfie, with Sigmund
- Daily Living
- If Only it Were So
- Junctions / Decisions
- Honoring Heritage
- Auden at Swarthmore
- Grasshopper
- The Discarding
- Calling All Feathers, Do You Hear
- haiku not much carved
- The Work of Constant Rising
- Bodies Approaching Rest
- Make Not Thy Head a Grave
- Three Short Poems
- First the Newborn Birds on High and Then the Awful Climbing Beasts
- Diptych for Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, Protectoress Against Mice, Rats, and Mental Illness
- Balloon Seller
- The Catcher and the Caught
- Unseenly
- Four from “Autobiographies”
- excerpt from "The Landscape of the Tattooed Arm."
- Speaking to the Dead
- October Days
- The Giver and The Gone
- Lessons from a Pine
- The Counter Where Names Go To Die
- Her
- falling
- Trio Anomie
- The Best Banana Bread
- The Dead
- Sparrow and Mockingbird Greet the Dawn
- hendecasyllabic moon
- Language
- Fascination
- Circumstance
- All About the Tumor
- Monday
- Out of the Woods
- The Atlantic
- Days
- for want of water
- Silent Noodles, Swimming Pools and the ACLU: What I Learned From Magazines This Week
- An Extremely Complex Fall Evening
- The Bedbugs
- The Toilers
- Herd
- Within You and Without You
- Sold Out Shade
- Perilous Joy
- Over Fifty
- Alone
- Time Change in Florida #2
- Waiting to Disappear
- cross-quarter days
- Towards the End of Memory
- The First Fifth
- The Cooler
- Work Room
- Librarians! Are You A Book Whisperer, A Truth Wizard, Or an Information Goddess?
- Moon Backstory
- Grimace
- Considering a Career
- ROAD TRIP
- A Quiet Noise
- Footnote
- Weight
- Grief Leaves the Room
- With My Eye
- here, winter
- American Passage
- Curves
- Cardboard Suitcase
- Late at Night
- Opening Line
- The Lonely Genius
- Tollund Man, one/breakfast, zero
- Fear
- Hummingbird
- elms
- Prospectus
- Homonyms
- The First of Many to Fade into the Now We Go Marching Down the Lane for Love Side Street
- Papa's Parrot
- The Conversation
- visionary
- Twilight, Nov. 07, 05:50am
- Framed
- All the Young Angel Heads
- Meteorology
- Don’t Carry the World
- This Is How You Make The Bed
- the symmetry of Aldo Rossi's handrails
- In Brief
- Xanthippe
- Uniquer Than Thou
- Acorn Gardening for Everyone
- The Tongues of Spring
- Mrs. De Florian looks through a north-facing window
- Playlist
- The Storyteller
- Disposable Pleasures
- In Real Time
- How To Love Like a Raven Loves
- The Haunting
- the note read
- Augustine
- Neruda's Mermaid
- Suite
- An Open Letter to my Fictionaut Family
- Deep June Pool
- The Wedding: Snow White
- the hunt
- A Fracas in the Memory Palace
- Move Along
- Malaise
- Three : Sixteen
- Face to Face
- Old men, old dogs
- War ; a fragment
- Staircase at the Foot of a Cliff/ a Four Poem Chapbook
- Quintet in a Minor Key Near the End of Time
- Homonyms Explicated
- Nocturne
- Whoami
- Lucky Strike
- Sappho
- Phenomenology
- X Marks the Spot
- Biography
- Regarding Viet Nam
- Eurydice
- Climate Change
- Blue Ridge
- Losses
- The Wanderers
- Scared Of Paradise
- Twenty-One Tinyish Poems
- Lapidary
- What It Means
- Like a Prince
- Away
- Confinement
- heart-shaped stones
- Untitled
- Abra Cadaver
- From The Chronicles of His Demise
- The Cicada's Complaint
- "A bit less hot Tuesday"
- Hospital, or Depression III
- Donnie's end
- Arcade
- Contentions
- How We Open Doors
- Anxiety
- The Body in the Other Room
- Lazybones and the Sheep
- Starry Night
- O'Arlo's Journal: About Myself
- Three in a Major Key
- The Planet Will Erase Us
- Urgencies
- The Little Things (three versions)
- More from the Chronicles of His Demise
- Triolet
- Bricks
- You, the Real Story
- Svalbard
- astral ages
- Moles & Scraps
- Noir in cadence
- ancients
- Three Small Ekphrastic Objects
- The Hour of the Wolf
- Cathedral Garden
- Out of the frying pan...
- Blank Checks
- Don't Be Difficult
- Cracked Heart Reigns in My Eyes
- El Dia de los Muertos
- The Light in Any Room
- Summer, 1995.
- Oops...
- Caged Light
- The Turning
- House Next Door
- 21st Century Living
- The United States Of Ammunition
- Desire: First Love Poem
- Hospice Valediction
- Wildfire
- four haiku
- Pitcher
- Girl With a Typewriter Mouth
- Thanksgiving, 2018
- Second Steps
- Afton Mountain
- Patriarchy: First Song of Despair
- “Kait” the homo sapien
- Winter Queen
- I Am Not Like All The Rest: Funny Lines From Online Dating Profiles
- Mortality
- Fairy Tale: Second Love Poem
- Beating
- Feet
- New Year's Eve, 1975
- Gifts
- Year End Close-out
- the new path
- Back in the Woods: Second Song of Despair
- Dead Girl Rolling
- Kitchen Fruit Fly Suicides
- Flurry
- the wall
- Old Church Slavonic
- BLT
- Third Love Poem and Third Song of Despair
- the cold envies whom?
- I Don't Understand Poets
- Out the Window
- Self Portrait Without Colors
- Precisely
- Barrier Island
- Born of Flight
- Fourth Love Poem and Fourth Song of Despair
- Remembering Daffodils
- my love for you
- Fifth Love Poem and Fifth Song of Despair
- There's Really Only Space For One Here
- Meet Your Happy-Go-Lucky Poet
- Why Things Are Just OK with Me
- Mojo
- Last Night
- Seventh Love Poem and Seventh Song of Despair
- everything moved in circles
- Yet More from The Chronicles of His Demise
- Nathaniel
- How to Wear a Paper Mache Salmon on Your Head
- That Picture
- Eighth Love Poem and Eighth Song of Despair
- More Of My Dark Job History
- Visitations
- Ninth Love Poem and Ninth Song of Despair
- Surge Of Green
- Gusts
- You Should Know
- More from The Chronicles of His Demise
- A Journey (on Foot) Through Hostile Lands
- in caring
- Tenth Love Poem and Tenth Song of Despair
- another distance
- Moai
- Come Monday
- circles, the round
- Bones
- Accepting New Patients
- The End
- In The Garden of Unclaimed Urns
- Elegy
- Seasonality
- Once Again
- Granny Medicine
- A Jovial Saturday Sight
- The Flower and the Sailboat
- Eleventh Love Poem and Eleventh Song of Despair
- Hands
- Creator
- Round Dance
- Twelfth Love Poem and Twelfth Song of Despair
- Intermission
- Fish Tales
- During My Daily Commute
- My Coyote
- ice becomes a new marvel
- Just Yesterday
- Thirteenth Love Poem: After the Forest
- Summer's smack
- Cottontail Morning
- The After
- Midsummer Night's Wake
- Trader Joe's, on a Sunday
- The Last Cricket of Summer
- Music and Books
- Autobiography 22: It’s Not Just the Income
- End Game
- Dancing in Santa Fe
- There There There
- October
- Spinneret
- It's Tough
- Tough Guy
- solace
- Samsara
- Framed Papers
- Paleo Prophet
- The Night Before School Starts
- Dubious Appetite
- Objects in a Field
- Lines for a Princess
- Brucey
- A Release of Sorts
- Unconditional
- Fire Alarm
- Trying to remember something else, I recall supreme and utter solitude in a far off time and place
- Not Death but Decrepitude
- A Whole
- Two Dog Poems
- The Bible
- The Poisoning
- I Take Out The Garbage
- now
- Query
- Sartre by the River
- The Facts of This Life as Its End Approaches
- Crack Pot Bear Chili
- A Coin, Two Coins
- Heart Shaped Charms
- Why She Is in Love Again
- MOMENT
- air hugs
- Emily's Letter to her Husband's Lover
- From The Plague Year 2020
- Music
- Power
- tiny thoughts
- Perils of Poetry in a Pandemic
- Mother Sunday Morning
- The Gulf
- Found - Guano
- Wildflowers
- civilization
- far beyond
- Emily Writes to her Father in Heaven
- March for Me
- Even if I was a Fool
- Four Brief Poems
- Two Summer Poems When I Wanted Three
- A Clean Tent
- Two Hundred Words
- Attacking Panic
- Neatly Creased Newspapers
- Two Hundred Words--2
- Grand
- Tango
- Take You Me for a Sponge, My Lord?
- Il Vecchio Camino
- Three Micros
- Over Here
- Collect Enough Fragments, You've Got Yourself a Poem
- Arrivals and Departures
- Unconscious Primate Pandemic Panic
- The Merry Go Round
- Girl Praying
- Voices of the Dying
- The Wave
- Not Making Heads or Tales
- Wayward Souls
- One old and one new
- Introducing Molloy Foppiano
- The Cuervo Gold and Clorox Blues
- Gone To The Dogs
- Holding My Husband
- Cheese
- What's with The Great Grief
- Interlude in Trader Joe's Parking Lot
- Full
- Snow Angel in the Sand
- - "You literally can´t believe the facts Tucker Carlson tells you. So say Fox´s lawyers."
- California Fall, 2020
- Emily Watches Him Sharpen Kitchen Knives
- Drifting
- Mirror, Handheld
- Rock the Rhombi
- it
- Clocks
- Tundra
- To the Inadvertent Misogynists in My Life
- Your party invitation just arrived (guest poem by Carolyn Martin)
- Twenty-two
- There Were Giants In Those Days, and the Wickedness of Men
- Lingering Over Language
- Cleft-Split Rock
- Gertrude
- Walking shadows, winter's harvest of souls, and other artifacts of illusion...
- Colors of the Last Bright Morning
- The ghost of who I used to be.
- passing in, passing out
- Revisionist History
- Death of a Toothbrush (a random observation)
- Small Ghosts
- There Was a Gold Light
- Just Ordinary People
- Working at a Truck Stop Outside Charlotte
- On the Deeper Slants of the Universe
- I Must Want it. No, I Must Need It.
- Transformations
- Late July
- The Tale of a Fat Ugly Crow on a May Afternoon
- Waste
- The Caracol, a snapshot
- A Girl and Her Trees
- My First Winter in Massachusetts
- the wrap
- The Welder
- Van Gogh’s Ear
- No Wind
- Red
- August and After Haiku
- Words of Departure
- Sisyphus takes the day off
- In the Sun
- Sounds Came & Went
- 01.24.2023.0720
- Green Torino
- Reprise
- Lips Like Oysters
- Concrete
- The Magic of the Old Man
- two love tankas
- with and without absent lines
- Trees and Strangers
- Hypothermia Society
- a prayer for lambs
- Control
- World
- My Summer Vacation
- My Hollows
- Ghostwriters!
- The Page Turner
- Barely Spring
- diversion
- Here, You Cry
- Like Father
- Giving Birth to the World
- cell
- Formed slowly
- so far from home
- fork
- JUST VISITING
- No More Little Bridget
- Visitation
- Muffled
- 15 Minutes of Sunshine
- line breaks
- Mrs. Smedley's Art Class
- Lovely Gilded Scars
- Tyka
- be kind to your pieces…/torn
- 1234
- Passing A Kidney Stone In The Twilight Zone
- 1 am some October night
- A Condemnation
- Bat (n.)
- To Swallow Us Whole
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Thank you, Erika for your helpful feedback on Mrs. Smedley's Art Class. I wrote it fresh from reading from my collection of Flannery O'Connor, however, it has a little Stephen King going on in there too I guess. I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
Hi Erika, thank you for comment * on cell :) :)
Thanks for the comment on Termination, glad you enjoyed.
Thank you Erika Byrne-Ludwig, It was funny today how I managed to remember it and realize what an impression it had made on me as a child. Thanks for reading.
Thanks for commenting on "Full"!
Thanks for commenting on "Full"!
Thank you Erika for reading and commenting on 'Uncommon Solitude'. x
Thanks for the comment on "Old Slavonic"! I enjoyed writing it :)
Thanks for your comment about little Billy. He is quite silly and always getting into a wee bit of trouble!
Thanks for reading October Days. Much appreciated.
Thank you! <3
Thank you Charlotte. How nice of you.
I'm a little late but I want to say "Welcome", Etika.
Hi Erika. Glad to see you on Fictionaut. Thanks for the comment on 'Stranger.'
Thanks for all your kind comments, Erika!
Welcome, Erika.
Hi, Erika. Thank you for reading and commenting on "Junkyard Angel Baby Nomad". Welcome to fictionaut.
Thank you for reading and commenting on "Broken Waters", Erika. And (a somewhat belated) welcome to Fictionaut!
What a nice welcome! Thank you all.
welcome!
Welcome, Erika!
Welcome to Fictionaut!