looking backwards
through the legs of
conformity, waiting
for evidence
some clue to motivation.
maybe in childhood something
went awry; perhaps it was
diet: a piece
of fish bone caught
between the teeth.
we look for answers
in strawberries, conjuring
motives, murder,
muddy water.
but lives cannot
be lived again
and mistakes
we made haunt
the present.
turning to tea leaves
and schnauzers for
answers just seems
befuddled.
but Popes still
get elected.
the smoke
still puffs black
or gray,
and cowards search
for their reflections
in mother’s milk.
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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