Gloria Buckley

Gloria Buckley has been published by Ephermal Elegies, Former People Journal, Me First Magazine, Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Star Dust Review, Rue Scribe, Defiant Scribe Magazine, Chaleur Magazine, Prometheus Dreaming, Red Hyacinth Journal, Sensations Magazine, Alcoholism Magazine, Chimera Magazine, Journal of English Language and Literature, Hermann Hesse Page Journal, Virginia Woolf Blog, Focus Magazine, Chimera Magazine. A self-published collection of seventy-five poems is available on Amazon.com. She is a practicing attorney for over thirty years. She holds a B.A. in English and J.D. from Seton Hall. She has a Masters with Distinction in English Literature from Mercy College.

And Then I Was Happy

It was the late 1970s and I sat so young and gullible while a moderator caught a glimpse of my sorrow mirrored in the reflection of his warm brown eyes as I listened intently to words of mass emotional destruction. I wanted to sort out grief and identity issues, and so I enlisted in a weekend of minimal bathroom breaks, minimal sleep, and meditative moments where I traversed the galaxies into my own creative process.
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