Category: Poetry Publisher: none as yet
Type: Fiction
Pages: 50
Copyright: Jan 1 2002
Poetry combining black & white artwork
Poems on loss and recovery. Title piece online at cc & d magazine at www.scars.tv.com
Excerpt
Passing
At last no recognition,
No glint in the other’s eye
For desire & its poison,
Only ghost life, glass made
Flesh & I drowned as my sister
In fevers quelled, the dear mad
Bliss of blankness
For infatuation full
Of heart, head, tempests,
Perilous, the misplaced
Seed, system-sewn, an Oedipus
Blindness, an awareness distressed
That kills, kills
While the body goes on
To its own askew melody
Being lost out of mind
At a somnambulist’s crosswalks
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