Lori D’Angelo
Summer 2024 | Poetry
Summer Storm
The blue-white sky before the storm.
The clouds hang over us like blankets
in motion. I wait for my son to come
home. Earlier today, my husband
said: I wish you’d go back to Louisville.
And, in the hours after, I had to decide
how long to be angry. Or if I’d be angry
at all. Each time, I depart and return,
we have to rearrange our lives,
like shifting planets. In the rain,
sometimes, you have to choose
what to cling to and what to leave.
Lori D'Angelo is a grant recipient from the Elizabeth George Foundation and an alumna of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. Recent work has appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, BULL, Bullshit Lit, Chaotic Merge, Ellipsis Zine, Idle Ink, Litmora, Moon City Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Rejection Letters, Talk Vomit, and Voidspace. Find her on Twitter and Bluesky @sclly21 or Instagram and Threads at lori.dangelo1. She lives in Virginia with her family.