• About
    Masthead
    Contact
  • Archives
    Issues
    Poetry Fiction Nonfiction Interviews
Ligeia Picture
Ligeia Desktop Picture
  • Submissions
  • Search

2 Poems

By Joel Allegretti
Spring 2021 | Poetry

A West Coast Seascape on a Black Canvas

             After an episode of  The Joy of Painting

In these dark Pacific waters

             slapping the rocky bluff

and polishing the SoCal sand

             to a spit-shine sheen

under night clouds billowing,

             Dennis Wilson

didn’t go swimming with

             Charles Manson.

Dracula Betrayed, or Nosferatu Negated

A bat flaps through

an open window

of a country home.

It sees its reflection

in a bedroom mirror.

Joel Allegretti is the author of, most recently, Platypus (NYQ Books, 2017), a collection of poems, prose, and performance texts, and Our Dolphin (Thrice Publishing, 2016), a novella. He is the editor of Rabbit Ears: TV Poems (NYQ Books, 2015). The Boston Globe called Rabbit Ears “cleverly edited” and “a smart exploration of the many, many meanings of TV.”


Other Works

Damien Ark Interview

by Matt Lee

... I want people to understand the complexity of what sex addiction feels like and also how confusing sex is to a survivor of sexual abuse ...

Read More

L'appel du vide

by Amanda Briggs

... Enter the low-key child spying program presented to the kindergarten class of 1989 ...

Read More

LIGEIA

About

  • Masthead
  • Submissions

Archives

  • Issues
  • Poetry
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Interviews

Follow

  • Twitter
  • Instagram

© 2022 LIGEIA Magazine. Designed by Sean Sam.