Night fell. Thoughts wander.
Fretted heads of lamps
sway shades dissembling outside the window.
Footsteps of passer-by, dissected by the moon,
have died away. O dark, my bliss…
Immovable in this dark-born phantasm,
I feel the argent shades approach. Awaked,
like crazy Aladdin, I take the lamp of midnight dreams
from ancient pictures, and I steal away
into the windy night to fly above the sleepy city.
But Morning threatens always on the sly.
The cry of the new light will overtake,
and silver bullets of the dawn will strike my flight.
The night will leave for crystal of the mirrors
at the eternal dwelling of Parisian Vampire.
Mary Angela Nangini's poems celebrate the richness of life and love. From the city to cottage-country and the roads in between, Nangini explores the changing seasons of her varied region. (This book will soon be reprinted in hard cover.)
(Self-published. Please contact author directly to order.)
Enter the pages of diaspora in quiet introspection. Bathe your thoughts with subtle humor; synchronize your spirit-sense with history-in-heat; fall headlong with eyes wide open into