blades and other fuels, double tanks.
The window, the rotting buildings behind
the sleeping cars cemetery
waiting for souls, drivers.
Ghost fingers run on the back
on the curves of scars
sparkling cracks
they are the copper pipes of pleasure
underground, underskin.
It's still her, she wakes up
whispering squeaky thoughts
she is without armor
She gets on her knees, waiting for my flesh
between the voids and the cracks
of her skeleton smile.
She takes me by and drags me to the black bed
she rides me, her orbits are lit: two blue holes
two sprays of light, two survivors
glimmers of outside.
The flesh is forgotten, useless:
the uterus subway, the generous glands
the byzantine buttocks and the skin of mango
stuff that I bought yesterday.
Two hundred dollars, for endless nights
for a black ring
for that closed room
narrow and immense
locked up by an old welder.
Other Books available in English
Dark poems collection
Venus Intervention with Corrine De Winter as co-author
(Kipple Officina Libraria, July 2014)
Short stories collection
Dark Gates - Roads to Hell and Limbus with Paolo di Orazio as co-author
(Kipple Officina Libraria, November 2014)
eBooks (available on Amazon)
Novels:
Naraka - L’inferno delle scimmie bianche (Naraka Trilogy #1, Mezzotints eBooks 2013, Amazon, 2014)
Shanti - La città santa (Naraka Trilogy #2, , Mezzotints eBooks 2013, Amazon, 2014)
Stories and short stories collection:
Acrux Reloaded (Mezzotints eBooks 2013, Amazon, 2013)
Parigi Sud 5 - Il quartiere dell’Apocalisse (Naraka World Serie #1, Kipple Officina Libraria, 2014)
Limbus -Trilogia di Scarafaggi (Naraka World Serie #2, Amazon, 2014)
Malanima - Storie di Lame e Presenze (Kipple Officina Libraria, 2014)
Mictlan - Doppio Inferno (Naraka World Serie #3, Amazon, 2014)
I Giorni della Gallina Nera – L’Apocalisse a Roma (Naraka World Serie #4, Amazon, 2014)
Vessel - Orrore in Terrasanta (Cannibal Crusade Serie #1, Amazon, 2014)
Kiki - Sangue a Berlino Brandeburgo (Kiki Serie #1, Amazon, 2014)
Weird West Blues - Storie di Zolfo e di Frontiera (coming out in Dicembre 2014, Amazon)
Anthologies:
Naraka - Kollection (contains the novels: Naraka e Shanti, Amazon, 2014)
Red - Kollection (contains the stories/storie collection: Acrux, Limbus, Mictlan,Vessel, Amazon, 2014)
Black - Kollection (contains the stories/storie collection: I Giorni della Gallina Nera, Kiki. Sangue a Berlino Brandeburgo, Verso il Monte Meru, Malanima, Ancora Arancione, Lo Sciamano, I Meridiani di Godot, L’uomo che ha visto il Mondo, Amazon, 2014)
Apocalyptic - Kollection (contains all works, except: Venus Intervention, Weird West Blues and some stories from Parigi Sud 5 - Il Quartiere dell’Apocalisse and Malanima - Storie di Lame e Presenze, Amazon, 2014)
Paperback (available on Amazon and CreateSpace)
Novels:
Naraka - L’inferno delle scimmie bianche (Naraka Trilogy #1, Mezzotints eBooks 2013, Amazon, 2014)
Shanti - La città santa (Naraka Trilogy #2, , Mezzotints eBooks 2013, Amazon, 2014)
Short stories collection:
Ultimo Tropico - Tutti i Racconti 2013 - 2014 (except Weird West Blues, Amazon, 2014)
Author’s Profile
Alessandro Manzetti
Horror, SF, weird fiction and dark poetry writer, editorial consultant and editor. As a writer, he published in Italian, using his name and the pseudonym of Caleb Battiago, two novels (Naraka, Shanti), three long stories (Mictlan, Vessel, Kiki ), five short stories collections (Malanima, Acrux, Parigi Sud 5, Limbus, I Giorni della Gallina Nera ), an interviews collection (Monster Masters) four anthologies (Naraka Kollection, Red Kollection, Black Kollection, Apocalyptic Kollection) and a dark poems collection (Uterus), as well as a lot of short stories published in magazine and anthologies. English publications: The Smaman and other shadows (Amazon, 2014), a horror/weird short stories collection, Venus Intervention (Kipple Officina Libraria, 2014) a dark poems collection with Corrine De Winter as co-author and the introduction by Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Dark Gates - Roads to Hell and Limbo (Kipple Officina Libraria, 2014), a horror/weird/apocalyptic short stories collection with Paolo Di Orazio ad co-author and the introduction by Gene O’Neill, and stories and poems published in anthologies (including Bones III Anthology, James Ward Kirk Publications, 2014 that contains his story The Shaman) and in printed and online magazines (including The Horror Zine Magazine, Fall 2014).
He managed the translation and editing service Probably King, and he collaborated with some Italian publishers (Gargoyle Books, Edizioni XII, Mezzotints eBooks, Kipple Officina Libraria) as editor in chief, marketing and foreign rights manager, consultant, editor, and with various web medias as a columnist. He is member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), The Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) and the British Fantasy Society. He live in Rome, Italy, with his doppelganger.
Website (English section): http://www.alessandromanzetti.net/english