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The little world you gave me,not the one with the red house and bulldogand eight rose bushes, ginger lilies that manageto resurrect then thrive after each freeze,where breezes certain times of the yearbring ship whistles,wafts of melodies from the neighbor kid’sdaily piano practice, Rachmaninoff starts and stops,to our front porch, shadedby an apple tree and scalloped awning,the other world, the one atop three odd prongsthe fragile replica, a birthday gift near the windowcomplete with all five oceans and seven continentsborders more numerous than capillariescontingent on sunlight to spin,thanks to cloud coverage, the ubiquitous gray,it holds the stillness and dust of glass.5/17/23 [End Page 543]
Gina Ferrara has several poetry collections including Amiss, published by Dos Madres Press in 2023. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Callaloo, The Poetry Ireland Review, Tar River Poetry and The Southern Review and was also selected for inclusion in the Sixty-Four Best Poets of 2019 by Black Mountain Press. Since 2007, she has curated The Poetry Buffet, a monthly reading series in New Orleans. She teaches English and writing at Delgado Community College and is the editor of the New Orleans Poetry Journal Press.
