Forgive me.I should have kept you buried, Anna. 163 years of silence—unearthed—an Egyptian ossuary exhaling red rot breath, cursing cursive— hieroglyphicsto girls your age now. your warnings drag across a brittle leaf. how Botticelli freshit was and is to us now,a resurrection. August 15, asterisked each year—she thought we wouldn’t knowthe meaningof celestial codes.Erie Canal […]
Nancy Byrne Iannucci
Nancy Byrne Iannucci is the author of Temptation of Wood (Nixes Mate Review). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gargoyle, 8 Poems, and Glass: A Journal of Poetry, among others. Nancy lives in Troy, New York, where she teaches history at the Emma Willard School.