Antonietta Losito
L’Aquila
I walk through the streets of the historic center. The buildings are still gone.
Residents march in a torch-lit procession, remembering those who died.
Annamaria was Apulian like me. She and her four daughters all crushed in their sleep.
The little one was only eight.
wide fields red bougainvillea clings to the crosses
About the Author
Antonietta Losito is a philosophy teacher who lives in Puglia, Italy. She wrote her first haibun in 2017; since then, her haibun, along with her haiku and senryu, have appeared in various journals.