The Poisoner's Garden and Others

A Poisonous Flower, an Evil Doll, a Well of Memory and Dream

Award-winning author of supernatural and gothic fiction, Douglas Clegg gathers 22 of his poems for the first time ever into The Poisoner’s Garden & Others, ranging from those with a dark gothic edge to rhymes of whimsy with strange twists. Plus a Foreword and Afterword by the author.


Included in this Volume:


The Poisoner’s Garden
Why My Doll is Evil
The Salt of Undone Collars
Swimming in Underwear
Medea in Transit
My Younger Self
Toast to the Damned
Cenote of Dreams
October Wind
On All Hallow’s Eve
Song of Lupercalia
For St. Valentine’s Day
On the Ides of March
Birthday
Winter Solstice
The Christmas Smite
Elegy on a Dead Frog Found in Swimming Pool
At the Station in the Rain
Still Life
That Hardscrabble Life You’re In
Assam Tea
The Crime