My blood boils

Authors

poem

Grief for a lost father boils like burnt caramel as the speaker catalogs the small sensory habits that keep his absence present.

Gabrielle Grilli

Gabrielle Grilli is a poet who graduated from the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of South Florida teaching Composition and Creative Writing. Her interests include versification and the evolution of poetry forms. She graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Arts in English and minors in French and Teaching. Her work has been featured in Chasing Light: A Burgert Brothers Anthology, Panoplyzine, The Racket, The Fine Print, Sweet Lit, and Saw Palm: Places to Stand. She was also a finalist in the Spring 2020 F(r)iction Poetry Contest.