"This isn't me!"
I protest over and over.
Then I have to admit it is me,
an old man now, alone, his memories
slipping from their tethers,
floating away into the fog of the clouds;
remnants of long gone events
which someone will find miles away,
snagged in a maple tree
next to their driveway;
never imagining how precious they are,
where in the world they came from,
or where out of the world
they were trying to go.
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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