Kiss your gargoyles       guardian 
twelve-eyed angels      yes toss
fish heads at your sphinxes      plant lemon seeds in schools 
of five.

ADVICE FOR FRESH SOULS

I want to write a love poem / All I have is this. 

Magpie

In bocca al lupo

Issue 9. Part of my greater and ongoing “Immaculate Collection” which is inspired by the Catholic saint & martyr watercolor books I had as a child. 

Giovanna d’Arco & To be a saint you have to

where would you land?
three-degrees-left-of-the-heart-meat, a perfect shadowy nook, or maybe
in my liver-space, where i keep my discontent like an ice cube
so thick that even a geyser couldn’t crack its brave way through?

These days

your mouth is 
a means of haunting, a holy spirit in 32 movements.

Francesca Tangreti

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