shadow greed
religion and flesh coins
a broken child
within a carver of false idols'
hands
a bomb
explodes
strings of a coward's scream
tie whose god
to death
i ask
where is life
and all the rest
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
Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.