I felt her breath on my skin. She slept, face burrowed into my neck with my long hair draped over her. Her legs curled around mine, her body pressed against my side, her hand cupped my breast; we slept like cats wrapped up together.
At first the cancer didn’t change that, though she lost her breast, then her hair. Her scar pressed into me, through me; I tasted it on my tongue and traced it with my fingers. I photographed her, exposed it and we celebrated life.
This is a book of free verse poetry that addresses the seven main tests in life and offers some sensible solutions to passing those tests with minimal discomfort.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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.)
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