Peter J. Dellolio

Peter J. Dellilio was born in New York City in 1956 and attended Nazareth High School and New York University. Dellilio graduated in 1978: with a BA Cinema Studies and later, a BFA in Film Production. His poetry, fiction, short plays, art work and critical essays have been published in numerous literary magazines and journals. Dellolio’s poetry collections include A Box Of Crazy Toys,  published 2018 by Xenos Books/Chelsea Editions; Bloodstream Is An Illusion Of Rubies Counting Fireplaces, published February 2023; and Roller Coasters Made Of Dream Space, published November 2023 by Cyberwit/Rochak Publishing.

There is a Rumor among Hospital Workers That a Last Tear is Shed at the Moment of Death

There is no hard evidence it’s

something that is only talked about

yet supposedly there are those

who have seen it a nurse or a

doctor or even a relative standing

over the bed you would have to

be there at the moment of death

and a last tear sounds right because

whether it is a physiological event

or a wave goodbye to the madness

of being in a body it seems fitting

that as we pass into

something else there would be a

tear to say I went places I did things

I loved I was going to do this I was

going to go there and now all that is finished.