unfinished business, unlived life,
lovely body unknown
for eighty years and four
she peered through the glass
but one cold night
when warmth was stacked in the room
her window died
and at the cremation
eyes for a second woke
but could not ask
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