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Rainy Horvath

Rainy Horvath USE   Rainy Horvath holds a MFA from Manhattanville College where she earned the Gribbins-Hughes Merit Scholarship for her work in journalism, and continues to study writing at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute and the University of Iowa Writing Center Extension College.
 

Short stories and flash fiction she has written have appeared in Breadcrumbs and The Well. Her flash fiction fiction piece, Dey Street, won 3rd place in The Well’s fiction competition in 1993.

In 2017 she was attended the Sarah Lawrence’s Writers Week Workshop in Cetara, Italy where she studied writing and painting and fell madly in love with Italy. After completing a successful career as a corporate writer, Rainy currently spends her time working on several new writing projects and plans to publish her first book in 2019.

 


Rainy's microchap & selected poems are available below. Download the microchap by clicking on the title.  

Origami Microchap

The Mermaid Poems

   

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Rainy Horvath CVR The Mermaid Poems Nov 2018 

Cover artwork by Rainy Horvath

 

Every microchap
may be downloaded
for free
from this website.
 
(Set printer for landscape)

 

 

I.  Starfish Song

 

I am not a mother.
No running footsteps in the hall,
No chubby arms thrust round my neck
Their sticky kisses to deliver.
A Mermaid, not a nurse maid.
I belong to Poseidon.
My children the songs I sing
And the starfish that light my way to China.
I am a creature of the deeps sent above to
watch the foolishness of men.
Destroyers of the ocean, enslavers of their brothers
I look, and swim away
Silver tail flashing in the sunlight.

Rainy Horvath © 2018

 

 

II.  Mermaid's Prayer
 

When she was a little mermaid girl
Her summers numbered ten
Her elder sister went above then came below again.
She told of wonderous cities there with
sparkling diamond lights
Of singing on a calm sea in the midnight.

Oh, white crested wave with your head so high,
Carry me far away.
Take away this fish’s tail
and let me be a woman
One fine day.
Take away this fish’s tail
and let me be a woman now to stay.

Rainy Horvath© 2018