A Murder of Crows

Michael N. Thompson’s A Murder of Crows synthesizes urban pastorals with caustic commentary in a poetic pilgrimage down the road of redemption. Thompson makes frequent pit stops for mockery and scorn, and the journey is punctuated by odes to serial killers and elegies for fallen heroes. His circuitous route will leave you dizzy and dark with the knowledge that not everyone is meant to be redeemed.

Verbal Alchemy

Deep inside the belly of the beast that's caked with the status quo,

politically correct meat puppets in denial that the Los Angeles riots

even happened, and suckerfish still living in an age when Kerouac ruled

the roost, ‘Verbal Alchemy’ was born like a cell in a Petri dish. Straight

out of an existence backwashed with dance hall girls, street dwellers

and dead heroes who communicate through visions, Michael N. Thompson

is merely the chronicler for these slices of purple mountain majesty.

Having a fascination with serial killers is just the cherry on this macabre sundae.

Also available for e-readers:  http://www.amazon.com/Verbal-Alchemy-ebook/dp/B007SPPIT8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1336929831&sr=8-2

 This Hollow Pierces

The collateral damage of love, death and gritty life in the cruel city

are on display in this collection of vignettes destined to make you

feel like you're right there as the action happens.

Dancing Inside The Mouth Of Madness 

I kept the words I wrote in my head as a boy stored through

the loveless days of my adolescence and the alcohol induced

promiscuous years as a young man when I numbed myself by

any means necessary. The scars previously locked up bled onto

the page like rivers of repressed memories until they became

the poems you have before you.