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James Allen Hall

James Allen Hall: Portrait of my Mother as Rosemary Woodhouse

May 12, 2011 by PBQ

My mother dreams she’s adrift on the Adriatic Sea. Naked men and women lounge all around her. Blue waves slap against her thigh and stones fall from unspeakable cliffs. I am dropped into her, boulder after boulder of me until I am safely drowned inside her. In the morning, Manhattan never looked so beautiful. “I […]

Filed Under: Contributors 76, Issue 76, Poetry, Poetry 76 Tagged With: Contributors 76, James Allen Hall, Poetry, Poetry 76

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