a deeper brown haunts
the well of understanding,
some broken tube
or filter within the bowels,
the intestines plotted
beneath our streets supposed
to bring us the cold and delicious,
the cool liquid heated
to float rubber duckies
in daughters’ bathtubs,
the hot liquid cooled
to quench fires raging
when mothers attack,
their disappointments
finally too hot
to stop,
their hands weapons
to crash and splinter
forgotten desires
for cold, rushing water
shushing them
to heaven
down mountain streams
and into whirlpools.
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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Ending up in a mess of thoughts!!
Excellent MoViNg write Larrt!!
Love Tinka
well done!
john+