The Antevasin

Posted by Annette Gagliardi | Aug 14, 2019 | Issue #02, Poetry | 0 |

She lives on the margin always
dreaming – a non-conformist, she is no
villager, yet refuses the households who call to her.

In sight of the forest
combing its perimeter, she gazes
toward the village –
a schism, a rebel; each world divides
her heart in two. She waits
for no sage or deity of the woods,

no soul to bid her
enter in, but enters yet still within
sight of the village.
She stands with one foot in two

worlds across a great chasm, constantly
yearning, yet unwilling to perforate
the frontier. She’s an enigma,
a riddle, a conundrum who
studies the feasibilities

of the unknown, patrolling
the perimeters . . . travelling lightly.

About The Author

Annette Gagliardi

After teaching in the Mpls. school district for thirty years, Annette is now teaching as a volunteer and visiting classrooms to share her love of literacy. “The Three Betty Goats Griff’ and “Resourceful Erica” are Annette’s two children’s books. She has also co-authored two curricula titled: “Raising Children With Roots, Rights & Responsibilities” and “Surviving the First Year: Learning the Basics of Family Day Care” and a variety of newspaper and trade journal articles about parenting and child development. Annette has poetry published or forthcoming in the Electric Anthenaeum - an Online Publication, Gideon Poetry Review, Poetry Quarterly, OWS Ink LLC, Moon Magazine, Dreamers Creative Writing Online, Down in the Dirt Online Magazine, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine and Trouble Among The Stars, 2019. In addition, Annette has work in over forty anthologies, including Genre: Urban Arts No. 8, After the Equinox Anthology from Cracked Walnut Lit Fest, the Phoenix Anthology for 2019 (Arizona State Poetry Society) the Moccasin, vol. LXXXI, 2019 (League of Minnesota Poets), the Poetic Bond VIII, Pasque Petals (South Dakota State Poets Society) and elsewhere. Most recently Annette has been a contributor and editor of Upon Waking: 58 Voices Speaking Out From the Shadow of Abuse,. She has won two national and six state awards (in Minnesota and Arizona) for her poetry and has work in over forty anthologies.