Poetry
It’s Like a Near-Death Experience
to write about the sea –
chimes of seagulls, plovers, and hybrids I call sea-lovers,
chant while waiting for bits of bread.
It’s like walking twickly back and forth on delicate legs ahead of breaking waves
as the stained-glass sea opens, and the meerschaum pours forth:
a sermon preaching at your feet.
It’s fierce, and deadly, like an orca.
Just when you think you’ve caught it,
it slips back out to sea, with the driftwood, and an old baseball cap.
You go Ahab mad pulled down by a cord of words.
Nancy Byrne Iannucci
Nancy Byrne Iannucci is a librarian and poet who lives with her two cats: Nash and Emily Dickinson. San Pedro River Review, 34 Orchard, Bending Genres, The Mantle, Typehouse Literary Magazine, and Glass: a Poetry Journal are some of the places you will find her. She is the author of four chapbooks, Temptation of Wood (Nixes Mate Review, 2018), Goblin Fruit (Impspired, 2021), Primitive Prayer (Plan B Press, 2022), and Hummingbirds and Cigarettes (forthcoming via Bottlecap Press). Visit her at www.nancybyrneiannucci.com Instagram: @nancybyrneiannucci .
In Volume 8, Issue 1
- Bildungsroman as Slasher Movie
- The Old Pond
- The Not Enough Blues
- It’s Like a Near-Death Experience
- Eyes Straight Ahead
- Taxes, Mostly
- Vanishing Hitchhiker
- All 34 pieces