Angela Gaito-Lagnese

Angela Gaito-Lagnese has an M.F.A. in fiction and an Ed.D. in language, literacy, and culture from the University of Pittsburgh. Her poems have appeared in The Pittsburgh City Paper's Chapter & Verse, The Main Street Rag, and Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: A Poetry Anthology. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA and teaches English at the Community College of Allegheny County.

“Birds of Prey” and “San Pedro, Los Angeles County”

I was nine. My parents came home hollow from the hospital.
My mother sobbed in wild animal cries, violent splotches
of purple spread from under her skin, her chest
her cheekbones tainted; my father silent
slumped in his easy chair, his neck gray-yellow
half of his face buried in clenched raw knuckles.

Issue 32, December 2019

Angela Gaito-Lagnese

Angela Gaito-Lagnese has an M.F.A. in fiction and an Ed.D. in language, literacy, and culture from the University of Pittsburgh. Her poems have appeared in The Pittsburgh City Paper's Chapter & Verse, The Main Street Rag, and Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: A Poetry Anthology. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA and teaches English at the Community College of Allegheny County.

“Birds of Prey” and “San Pedro, Los Angeles County”

I was nine. My parents came home hollow from the hospital.
My mother sobbed in wild animal cries, violent splotches
of purple spread from under her skin, her chest
her cheekbones tainted; my father silent
slumped in his easy chair, his neck gray-yellow
half of his face buried in clenched raw knuckles.

Issue 32, December 2019

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