Give me a knife, I’ll give you an apple.
Ours is a beautiful crisis, the being
and not being, our presence
in this moment while we dream
Pollywogs in the pond, our toes
in the cold water and the sky pretending
summer soon to come. She lies to me
every day and still, still
I believe. The little things
The whisper of you walking
from one room to the other,
the dog lying down, the purposeful
clink of the dishes into the sink
after dinner. Let me spend
All my days as this pearl.
A.O’N. Romagnoli has been writing for a long time, through a great career in the wide world of food (from Chef to operator, to Lecturer and Lab Instructor at UNH), through motherhood, and through the transition of retiring. She lives on the coast of Tuscany and am learning how to be herself again. Her most recent publication was in the 2022 Oberon Review. Prior to that – UMass Amherst English Dept. Literary Journal, Northwest Poetry, Boston University Literary Journal, and others. After a long hiatus from submitting, She is at it again, with renewed determination. She wants others to recognize and share what she puts words to. Now free from the demands of work and home, she has the time to really focus on writing finer, more powerful poems.