Joan Leotta
is a writer and story performer. Her poems have appeared in journals in US, Ireland, GB, Germany, and more. Her first collection, Languid Lusciousness with Lemon, came out last year from Finishing Line Press.
Joan Leotta
The Widow’s Nights
“Days are not so bad.
My volunteer work.
Lunch with friends.
Gardening.
All of these fill the daytime hours.
But it is the nights—
they are so long,...