can i be silent now when seeing a shame
shown in silver particles upon
a not so silver screen
no heroes here portrayed
by wayne
heston blows lyrical
a head off some wog or other
of no consequence
from his eyrie
hawk nose slavers
along the barrel o’ his
kentucky killer
tooth's cinematic
in their wide screen
defiance
of
sanity....
he quotes
some antiquated law
from centuries ago when
once there was a danger
from within
but his lyke grow stooped
and old
their withered eyes
not so keen
and hawklyke
since danger
as once seen
can
if nature allows
smell to retain
fear
of creeping crawling
wriggling
through the underclothes
of a night tyme horror
reach for the
rifle
ha ha
the serpent
will strike
and in a blink o’ a lyfespan
lucifer
will smile
upon you..
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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