Oh, Bridge, tell me your stories of the feet that tread your ribs across the peaceful chattering water that laughs and plays over rocks and roots and fish.
Tell me of the giggling children walking hand in hand pointing and pounding, scaring the minnows from your shadow as they trample across from one side to the other.
Tell me of the lovers as they lean across your rail and into each other’s bodies smiling at the pair of ducks that wade warily near their nest beneath your sheltering belly.
Tell me of the weary ones whose souls bear scars of love and hate, death and sorrow and sigh heavily upon broken dreams while pondering the silvery depths.
Tell me of the old ones with deeply carved planes and backs bowed from the burden of living, as your bowed spine bears their weary weight.
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