Priceless pearl hidden
in the velvet folds of
my breathless bosom
Celestial prisoner
You can never escape
my ardent arms
You are bound hand and foot
golden ball and chain by
unceasing contemplation on
You
Leela Lord
on a secluded island
uninhabited
far from the
caustic gaze of the
profane world
I have secured
your Grace
less the evil eye
fall upon
us and
I lose awareness
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
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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