Poems by Louis Gallo

Poems by Louis Gallo

A Delicate Balance by Bette Ridgeway       The Revenance of Reverence   1It abandons you, leaves you parched and dried-outon the desert floor . . .returns in dribs & drabs,passing epiphanies—the adagio of that mourning doveon your lawn, the...
Poems by Louis Gallo

Poems by Louis Gallo

Art: Contemplation by Alexey Adonin THE PIANO   All the new thinking is about loss.In this it resembles all the old thinking.Robert Hass, “Meditation at Lagunitas”   I.I’m in a dwelling that does not existalthough here I am now in the dream—maybe an amalgam...
Poems by Louis Gallo

Poems by Louis Gallo

      IDENTITY   The entire past up for grabs! Who are we but our memories of the past? Yet the “experts” tell us that what we think We remember about our pasts is fantastical, Mostly untrue, mostly false, mostly invented As we grope along...