Shadow in downtown fog
Where neon scalpel’s strobe
Pares through blank eyes
Firefly’s glittering glory
Child of the night
Beckons
Asks for a dance
Grime-stained Madonna
Offers
Plagiarized heart
Reaches out
Do you see her?
Does she touch you
Someplace
Where you’d rather not?
A prisoner of circumstance
Not your desire
Whether for pennies
Or habit
Cries in the dark, alone
As you pass by
Secluded
In last call’s haze.
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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