Nora Luongo

This Morning (an erasure poem for Tony Soprano)

Your mama said
you'd be the one
in a blue moon

your eyes all love

never told you
but you're looking good, baby

(you're feelin' shame)
a bad sign in your eyes

this mornin'
got blue

you woke up
upside down
ain't the same blues

                    Hey one in a million

you got that shotgun?
Shame about it – a bad sign in your eyes
this morning
got a gun             got you

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Nora Luongo was born and raised in Elizabeth, NJ and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-Newark. Her poetry has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Re-Side Magazine, Black Telephone Magazine, and others, and in the following anthologies: No Tender Fences: An Anthology of Immigrant & First-Generation American Poetry, Divine Feminist: An Anthology of Poetry & Art by Womxn & Non-Binary Folx, and Hecate: Decay. She can be found on Twitter and Instagram as @phigirl