Lois Roma-Deeley
This Place of Broken Words
Someone. Tell. Me. How.
To. Live. Now. In. The. After.
Where. We. Are. He. Is. Not.
Voices. Too. Many. Voices.
This. Sorrowing. Boy. Of. Ours.
Who. Told. Us. Demons. Are. Real.
And. Now. I. Know. We. All.
Are. Falling. Every. Day. Falling
Into. A. Crack. In. The. Earth.
The. Ground. Of. Being. Split. Open.
Stunning. It. Is. This. Darkness.
Lois Roma-Deeley’s most recent poetry collection is Like Water in the Palm of My Hand (2022). Her previous books include The Short List of Certainties, winner of the Jacopone da Todi Book Prize (2017); High Notes (2010), northSight (2006); Rules of Hunger (2004). Her poems have been published in-or are forthcoming from--numerous anthologies and journals, including Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day Series, Split Lip, Pensive, Post Road, Spillway and many more. She’s Associate Editor of the poetry journal Presence. Currently, Roma-Deeley is Poet Laureate of Scottsdale, Arizona. www.loisroma-deeley.com
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Someone. Tell. Me. How.
To. Live. Now. In. The. After.
Where. We. Are. He. Is. Not.
Voices. Too. Many. Voices.
This. Sorrowing. Boy. Of. Ours.
Who. Told. Us. Demons. Are. Real.
And. Now. I. Know. We. All.
Are. Falling. Every. Day. Falling
Into. A. Crack. In. The. Earth.
The. Ground. Of. Being. Split. Open.
Stunning. It. Is. This. Darkness.
Lois Roma-Deeley’s most recent poetry collection is Like Water in the Palm of My Hand (2022). Her previous books include The Short List of Certainties, winner of the Jacopone da Todi Book Prize (2017); High Notes (2010), northSight (2006); Rules of Hunger (2004). Her poems have been published in-or are forthcoming from--numerous anthologies and journals, including Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day Series, Split Lip, Pensive, Post Road, Spillway and many more. She’s Associate Editor of the poetry journal Presence. Currently, Roma-Deeley is Poet Laureate of Scottsdale, Arizona. www.loisroma-deeley.com
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