Transylvania Shop is dressed up for Halloween.
Pumpkins and cobwebs, the visible and the invisible,
the seen and unseen.
Like a magical Neewollah, that's Halloween spelled backwards.
Victoria Road on the south side, should that be
on the dark side? Let's go inside and see.
Coffee and cake behind the glass,
so many curiosities and knick-knacks, you know.
Witches on brooms, the deadman's skull,
All bathed in a warm orange glow,
I have time for spooky fantasy, always will;
Unheimlich in German, the uncanny!
Victoria Road, your old-world charm
Beautiful sandstone buildings that wear it well
Once the second city of the empire, Glasgow
This is the other side, and it won't hurt you
to smile once in a while.
From First Love to its destructive end and on to new beginnings, Mary Angela Nangini's poems explore the birth and death of a relationship. The powerful poems are presented in two parts with an introduction to her next book My Ontario Beautiful. (Th
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