About Lucille Gang Shulklapper

A workshop leader for the Florida Center of the Book, the first affiliate of the Library of Congress, my poetry and fiction appear in journals and anthologies such as Still Going Strong, Orchard Press Mysteries, Common Ground Review, Poetic Voices Without Borders, Gulfstream, and Jerry Jazz Musician. I’m also the author of two poetry chapbooks: What You Cannot Have (Flarestack, U.K.), The Substance of Sunlight (Ginninderra Press, Australia), and one mini-chapbook, Godd, It’s Not Hollywood, ( SCWI Publications, U.S.A.) A picture book, Out of Bed, Fred, (Rain Publishing) will be released in October ’08.

Who Sings in the Deepest Water of the Abandoned Lagoon?

-Title after Pablo Neruda- Fanciful creatures who inhale water, and exhale ballads through windpipes of coral and kelp, lungs of sandstone and shells, teeth of abalone, netted lips, knotted hairs in tangled locks. From Bottomland, one rose and sang to me, his voice a chorus all in one, of heavy doors that would not open, their hinges blazed in the fires of Hell. He sang of six-legged beasts with flipper arms that tossed him into treeless air, of taloned birds … Read on…