THANK YOU! THANK YOU to everyone who's pre-ordered a copy of We The Mourners! Yahoo! I'm working hard on marketing and launch details...and a small tour! More to come! Ella’s Dresser Ella lived with her mother, father and brotheracross the street from my Nonniher brother was younger by yearsa toddler speaking only in hungarianher father… Continue reading POEM A DAY – April 26
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POEM A DAY – April 13
Two Submission Responses This Week anticipation, for weeks, two seeds burrowing in the bottom left temporal lobesprouted, embryos of hope hypocotyl-ing and also a memory: my mother in the yellow sun-faded kitchen on Moy. fisting the beige phone handle, the curled cord coiling into itself, the curve at the base, cracked, black wires in shadow.… Continue reading POEM A DAY – April 13
POEM A DAY – January 8
Anything like this ever happen to you? The StairsFor D.M My Nonna’s house is a sanctuaryan extension of the Catholic Churcha rectory a block and a half awayfrom the gold-gilded arches and theweary-faced saints statues of St. Angela Merici Jesus is herehe waits for me on the landing at the top of the carpeted stairswhere… Continue reading POEM A DAY – January 8
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