Atterrando: Poems

By Carmela Lanza

They never find him,

his body thrown in a mass grave,

I don't know, I was never asked.

Tonight I fry la torta di polenta, the cake of bones,

tomorrow we will have minestra di niente, soup of nothing.

And I think of my mother telling me

about the bitterness of greens

and what they bring to your life:

rapini

cicoria

She opens my mouth

and shoves those bitter greens in,

"swallow all of it," she says,

"It will make you a bitter woman."

Carmela Delia Lanza

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1960090666
• ISBN13: 9781960090669
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Epigraph Publishing
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"