I wrote "A Candle from Rome, Italy (2003)" two years after my sister passed. Until this point, I'd obsessively written contrapuntal poems alongside my sister's words. I was trying to break out of that form and write about her loss on my own. I drew inspiration for this poem from the somatic exercises in CAConrad's "A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics" to destroy something linked to a memory of my loved one.
Danielle Badra on "A Candle from Rome, Italy (2003)" |
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