this world is no place
for a beautiful woman such as you
full of deceptive smoke and mirror tricks of
how you are to be
a stale status quo implanted in infertile soils of
non thinking people
they laugh at you
while their image lay slain
on the torn battlefields of their minds
sprouting bloody appendages
from their hemispheres
this is not a place for a beauty
such as you/ this place, whose façade is
a billboard of pasted on breasts
and sewn on lips/
artificial skin tones and collagen hips,
a world where women become montages
of magazines and video clips
YOU are the remaining organic
offspring of God’s hand
with altostratus tears
and mahogany winds
Sequoia soul
Hyacinth twin/
Mary Angela Nangini's poems celebrate the richness of life and love. From the city to cottage-country and the roads in between, Nangini explores the changing seasons of her varied region. (This book will soon be reprinted in hard cover.)