Mike Bonikowsky

Giver of cares. Author of “Red Stuff” and “The Shepherd of Princes” (Solum Literary Press).

[Mike Bonikowsky @michael_again]

A dozen years or so I wrote a story. Then I gave up on it until some friends got a hold of it and made me write it again, and again, and again, until it became a novel. Last summer some more friends, at Solum Literary Press, decided they want to help it become a book. Here it is:

[Mike Bonikowsky @michael_again]

@theworkofbees @_DixieFlatline_ 😭😭😭

[Liv Ross @je_suis_liv]

Today is the day! While copies have been arriving across the week, The Blackbird Ballad is officially released!

Thank you so much for your support and enthusiasm for this book so far! I really hope you love reading it as much as I loved writing it!

[Mike Bonikowsky @michael_again]

Me at @CCFWgr with the @SolumPress crew, pushin’ books.

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Festival haul

[Mike Bonikowsky @michael_again]

@BurlHorniachek Thank you Burl! Very much appreciated, and it was so good to meet you.

[Mike Bonikowsky @michael_again]

To bring us back from our wanderings
In the land of the dead
Back to the table, at last to be fed,

And tell us the story, again and again.

[Mike Bonikowsky @michael_again]

Tell the story again
Though you tell it with swollen tongue.
Through split lips and shattered teeth.

Tell the story again
Though the sky outside grows dark
And the hour comes when no one can work.

[Mike Bonikowsky @michael_again]

The buried and the drowned
The scattered and the burnt.
That he will come again

To sift our ashes from the burn-pit
Sort our bones from the ossuary
Our bits from the bellies of the worms.

[Mike Bonikowsky @michael_again]

What better end to come to, then
When all the fuel has been consumed?
Than clean grey ash, and spiralled smoke,
And a good scent in His nostrils.

[Mike Bonikowsky @michael_again]

Let us return to ash again,
Who burn like incense all day long.
Smoke that smells of all we’re made of
Rising up as an offering

Of childbirth and hospice care
Fresh-baked bread and barium
Of new-tilled earth and the graves beneath
Of all we’ve made, and done, and been.

[Mike Bonikowsky @michael_again]

Me outside

[Mike Bonikowsky @michael_again]

@theworkofbees Absolutely and me too.

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Christmas Book Flood

[Mike Bonikowsky @michael_again]

@mikealmquist Legit started to cry at Away In A Manger.

[Belle @theworkofbees]

Injustice looks real gruesome and those who benefit ghouls in the light of Christmas. As it should year round

[Solum Literary Press @SolumPress]

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[Mike Bonikowsky @michael_again]

@je_suis_liv @courtneyellis Liv you will love Godric so much. And then you can get right into Brendan (also Buechner, also a wild wild hagiography)