Welcome to Gnat Smoke Press
Gnat Smoke Press is a publication company dedicated to bringing you the finest quality poetry and fiction from John Ryland. As a southern small press, we revel in southern hospitality and great southern writing. We are unique, perhaps a little quirky, but we always aim to please. Stay a while, have a look around, just be careful which curtain you look behind. Some of them are hiding ghosts.
I have built so many
stained glass memories
that my sun exists only
in multi-colored diffusions.
Rising to my alter daily,
garments torn, ash
upon my hands, sifting
through a church in ruins.