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Chiara Di Lello

[ugh]
NY, United States

Selected work (9 publications)

Up the Staircase Quarterly, 2023
Shrimp (a Love Poem)It sounds like bickering but I realize it’s not: the couple shuffles just ahead of us toward the seafood department one gesturing from captain’s seat behind the cart’s handlebar and one leaning into the cold case. Get some salmon, too. Where?...
poetry
eco-poetry
climate change
Variant Lit, 2023
KutyaPicture a clod of boys in the dirt road clumped around him stubborn root that he is who set himself afloat in the mill run in a tin tub got stuck and beat for it but survived...
poetry
Across the Margin, 2023
Ars Poetica, Describe your Perfect DateEllen had a frog pond behind her house a glory of weeping willow by the door a screened-in side porch so full of boxes we snuck through its narrows like a hedge maze every plant pot’s soil held a treasure rock or glass, tiny turtle made of brass...
poetry
Roi Faineant Press, 2023
Pickle Tub, Moussaka, Sea-Witch: Coney IslandI’ve got a heart like a pickle tub you can turn it over and drum on it for change it’s full of living things, it’s good for you even if the smell isn’t for everyone
poetry