I have used writing throughout my life to express love and heal my heart. Get "Lost in a Tavern" and go on a provocative, poetic journey of love, betrayal, and strength. Even if you hate poetry, you will love the artwork. I carefully designed each black and white illustration to add visual depth to selected poems, accentuating the harsh contrasts in life - the dark versus the light. My hope is that you will find comfort in knowing that you can overcome love's trials and Cupid's twisted pranks.
from Chapter 3: Lost Love
'Black on Black'
One by one
They disappeared…
Faded away in the back –
Back in the crevices of my heart,
And now I wear
Black on black.
Black is the color of mourning.
Black is the color of death.
Now alone I take each breath.
Now alone I travel the world.
Now alone I walk the streets.
Now alone I shiver…
Beneath my satin sheets.
So black on black is what I wear,
And little hope’s left in my silent stare…
And like all around me –
No one is there.
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.)
“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
