And the ghosts of giggling trees strangely still
corporeal, their mossgrown huge
if humble selves
shelved, their velvet birth and beauty marks
fading the color of a tired prepartum sky -
fractured and whole they lie, tongued and truncated
by the formlessness of flame....
from How Love Consumes a Forest,
in memoriam, The Hayman Fire
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
Using Calgary as a backdrop the author satirizes the self-serving nature of the public as it continues to fatten itself, not only physically, but egotistically as well.
