November 9, 2016 / November 6, 2024
We woke stiff as chairs
in a funeral home from childhood––
the corpse looking back at us,
belligerent.
Paula Colangelo’s poetry is published in Salamander, Sugar House Review, SWWIM Every Day, among other journals, and is forthcoming in The Comstock Review. She has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and her chapbook, Apartment Logic for Night Owls, was chosen as a semifinalist in the Flume Press Chapbook Contest. Her book reviews appear in Pleiades and Rain Taxi. She has taught poetry in healing focused rehabilitation programs.
The Marbled Sigh 