Lo Galluccio is a writer and vocalist whose published works include two chapbooks of poetry: Hot Rain on Ibbetson Street Press and Terrible Baubles on Alternating Current Press. In addition, her prose-poem memoir, Sarasota VII was published by Cervena Barva Press. She's been nominated four times for Pushcart prizes and served as Poet Populist of Cambridge between 2013-2015, In July of 2019 she received an MFA in creative writing from Stonecoast, the University of Southern Maine. Her writer's site is www.logalluccio.weebly.com.
The Home Situation
Dripping
of water like fingers
stretching
against the sky,
like
bells, random and plain.
My
dreams are so meddled with.
my
mouth is dry and unlikely
to be
met with another mouth now.
Still
pieces of the universe
reward
a pining heart, purses
full
of anti-money and faith.
A
dirty red curtain
swaths
the situation and
defines
the moment with bigger lips.
Bigger
lips than mine
will
kiss a stranger in this
time
of quarantine.
We’re
alone with our
dreams
and we wake
startled
by the piece-meal rain.
That's a stunning entry into this dystopia we are living. Brava, Lo Galluccio, Brava!
ReplyDeleteYour words are a lullaby hymn
ReplyDeletea few doors down in the mansion of solitude