PoetryHeated Reverie by Deborah Guzzi
Heated Reverie Ashen storm clouds brew between furrows on his brow. Catastrophe awaits luminous tears well, yet again, in her oval eyes. Mania mounts his visage; her son’s brow creases. Cringing, she…
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Deborah Guzzi
Writing by Deborah Guzzi published in Dual Coast Magazine. 7 pieces from the archive, free to read.
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PoetryThe Tall Ship Burns by Deborah Guzzi
Burnished gold, aged bronze patinaed by the firelight singed by sullen Sol, not stayed by Poseidon's hand; aflame, aflame, the tall ship burns, see the masts ignite. Impenitent, the sky rains ash…
The Broken Column Painted by Frida Kahlo by Deborah Guzzi
You thought me spineless so in a fit of anger you tore mine out bloodless, I rose sword swallower, strengthened by my tattered paper edges The abyss of your barren soul wrapped…
Dream Catchers by Deborah Guzzi
There was a time when feathers found me like talismans, they came. Without their soft down, I was grounded, the sparrow thought to lend me flight. Now, neither up, nor down do…
Astigmatism by Deborah Guzzi
The curvature of the eye marred by irregularity distorts. Rain falling through the aqueous arch prisms, propelling points of light skyward, produces an aura most saintly. Sunlight swallowed by the curve curls…
A Blooded, Virgin, Night by Deborah Guzzi
Brighter than a fall bonfire but with the chill of ice the Winter sun haloes the gray and barren woodland, throbbing, almost hesitant, with a florescent pulse, brazen in its unrelenting descent,…
Who Do the Voodoo? by Deborah Guzzi
Elizabeth, Bet for short, got on the road early. She was tired by the time she pulled off the highway onto the back streets of Manchester. She thought to herself, New Hampshire…