Poetry

"...A heroine who champions free speech..."

"...scholars scouring vellum’s inked decay..."

Donna Pucciani, a Chicago-based writer, has published poetry worldwide in Shi Chao Poetry, Poetry Salzburg, Li Poetry, ParisLitUp, Acumen, Journal of Italian translation, and other journals. Her seventh and most recent book of poetry is EDGES.

"...the wallet slipped, worn-leather shine, is soon binned skip, of no account..."

"...you swallowed shadows that you mistook for water..."

"...The mountains will not know our names..."

"...I wanted plaits..."

"...a tightly packed attic, of no consequence..."

"...Souls vow to stay united in life and beyond it..."

"...a match tossed into the ditch..."

"...I would meet not wings or haloes, but true messengers of God..."

"...Like racehorses at the gate of magic,..."

"Penguins tiptoe around their neighbors' eggs warily..."

"...I honestly can't tell you why..."

"...Otherwise he’d freeze his toes..."

"...a black tuxedo T-shirt..."

Penguins on the town...

"A poet's vision transcends boundaries ..."

"...we edge forward into half-imagined spaces..."

"...Out of this word was born time..."

"...all the distance will disappear..."

"...Agonized heart sings The song of life..."

"...resist the nature..."

"...Humans come with dimensions, choices..."

"...how can I know a hundred heartaches..."

"...I wish she had raised those distant eyes..."

"...spark of nuanced nothingness --"

"...The sky is featureless, the light spreads like a stain..."

"It was a mad and spinning world in which you met her..."