Sometimes I dream
of a little gate opening
then another
and another
into a walled garden
I hear the song of the linnet
the thrush in the hawthorne
a creaking of iron hinges
I’d almost forgotten
the scent of lilacs
Donna Pucciani, a Chicago-based writer, has published poetry worldwide in such diverse journals as Shi Chao Poetry, Poetry Salzburg, Agenda, Italian Americana, and Istanbul Literary Review. Her seventh and most recent book of poems is EDGES.