by Toni Ortner | Sep 20, 2013 | Poems
In JEOPARDY Toni Ortner explores grief and loss, and the path to acceptance, “It’s riotous enough to love. / Be my sweet morning dove. / Let go of the black cloth of mourning. / I will weave you a nest of sweet grass and sun.” “In the midst of this litany of grief”...
by Toni Ortner | Jan 19, 1993 | Poems
I. Montauk, Long Island, Atlantic Terrace Motel a shadow passed over in the morning mist the angels the divas the spirits the sacred. Snug in our bed a bottle of gin and Blake on the nightstand we recited Walt Whitman browning our bodies to perfection on the empty...
