Longo-Geremia

MELODIES I hear a melody mamma used to sing Silent are the words only whisperings in my ear. no hallucinations like the ones she had that last year… I hear a voice singing one I know recollections in a minor key a melancholy quiet and alone they tell me it won’t be easy. my fear is not the end it is... Sign in to see full entry.

LEVIATHAN you come each day from a place hidden deep slithering surreptitious into my brain. I taste the poison of a vomit bilious green spill throughout and sicken me to death's wish. you are Lilith and Leviathan come to steal my soul... but I am not yours to take Sign in to see full entry.

THE NECTAR OF THE GODS The gods knew not of death yet death did come and the heavens were stunned into silence. nothing was the same again We can never fix what time has broken put a lifetime back together never feel a father’s embrace or a mother’s kiss when all is done and the living are left... Sign in to see full entry.

TO WHERE THE RIVER FLOWS walk me down the river road no need to hold my hand. I can make it on my own I want someone to take me where the river flows. it’s been a time too long I can't go alone. I'd like to see the boats go by where the sun falls low at river’s edge. it’s been a while since I’ve... Sign in to see full entry.

AUNT MARIE Hey! aunt Marie do you remember twirling me around the room corner to corner door to door round and round across the floor I was three you danced with me made my curls fall on my face and laughed that honkatonk* way twirled me more a faster pace around the room dlzzily corner to corner... Sign in to see full entry.

TODAY I love the early morning hours dark and still almost night but It’s raining and darker than any other day today I have to do the laundry take my meds make my bed put the dishes away but it’s raining and somehow I am moving more slowly more slowly than any other day today I feel the sickness... Sign in to see full entry.

Deadly fascination: Medusa mesmerized by the beauty of her ugliness I was drawn by desire to the flame of my destruction curious and strange the serpent's charms that kill and paralyze she danced in circular motion in whirling thrusts orgasmic whispering words of unspeakable seduction my senses... Sign in to see full entry.

ABOUT GOING ON what do you do when you lose someone who is a part of you how do you walk through the minutes and the hours how do you survive the madness the heart needs to break if even for a while the soul yield to its sadness the mind understand its mortality wounds heal into scars that wait for... Sign in to see full entry.

A Gathering at the Well {1945-1949 as I remember it } Mr. Cappolla came down the street two times a week in a horse-drawn pickup truck shouting in his own Italian his fresh fruits and vegetables in a monotonous litany that needed an “amen” at the end And then they came to gather flying out of their... Sign in to see full entry.

The shells and mortars came The shells and mortars came screaming Across the sky Turning night into day I hit the ground but it was too late my bowels fed a hungry earth as I there dying lay the war was soon over wounds began to heal and trucks delivered flowers to the houses of the dead the spice... Sign in to see full entry.