Donna J. Gelagotis Lee is the author of Intersection on Neptune from the Poetry Press of Press Americana, which won the Prize Americana for Poetry in 2018 and On the Altar of Greece, which won the 2005 Gival Press Poetry Award. Her poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies internationally, including the Bitter Oleander, Feminist Studies, Massachusetts Review, The Other Journal, and Unruly Catholic Women Writers: Creative Responses to Catholicism from Excelsior Editions/SUNY Press. Her website is www.donnajgelagotislee.com.
It was a river. No, it was a stream. Or perhaps it was a spring that flowed from a mountain, because it was so clear, and everyone wanted to drink. In the distance, there was a church with many lights starting from one light. There is a story about the light that had to do […]
The speaker in this poem examines her place between the “blessed and unblessed” and observes the gap between her actions of piety and the “attempt” at a life.
