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VEGLIA, TRANSLATION BY WALLY SWIST

from L’Allegria by Giuseppe Ungaretti Cima Quattro il 23 dicembre 1915 Un’intera nottata buttato vicino a un compagno massacrato con la sua bocca digrignata volta al plenilunio conla congestion delle sue mani penetrate nel mio...

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CARRYING ON JOHN LYSAGHT

I awake To a wall of expectations, Both personal and superimposed, Anxiously waiting in line for resolution Clamoring to be jettisoned. Today must be for everything, So I`m told, or I`m telling myself, A monumental traverse,...

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BELONGING BY MARTIN WILLITTS JR.

Day begins, a hymn from the pipe organ trees — slow, steady — a rumbling undertow freight train approaching — murmuring with excitement and dazzle-light, leaf-shaking birds. There’s no word for this — this opposite of star-burst...

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THE SHATTERED BEAUTY BY MARTIN WILLITTS JR.

Just when I think I know something, I find out we don’t. Not by a long-shot. Every concept I thought I knew is wrong; every word ever constructed contains the injury of possible wrongness; every reality covers another reality...

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AT THE END OF DAY BY MARTIN WILLITTS JR.

I’ve never seen the world twice the same. I do not have to sail into the horizon to see the end of one day or the beginning of another to see the world twice, differently. We do not have to travel so far we forget the way to use...

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ACHIEVEMENT BY PASQUALE TROZZOLO

Does the hawk mind Flying alone Wondering Will they wait At the nest or fly on Without him? Even as he flies He cries. Silently so as to fool. His wings Pull him. Clouds his only company. He’s higher now but Not less worried....

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WHAT I NOTICE BY MARTIN WILLITTS JR.

1. I have a tendency to try to fix whatever is beyond repair whether it is a broken heart or forgotten promise or the brown patch in meadow grass or the gouge a river makes changing patterns and shapes like a body getting older...

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THE DIARY BY CYNDI CRESSWELL COOK

‘Someboby shot him,’ I wrote in my diary while biting my lower lip. My mother had bought the journal for me. My mother thought I needed to write about current events, to look back when I was older. Right, I’m in the third grade...

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Pizza, Pizza By Bill Lockwood

Dimitri Ariston had owned the pizza place for years. It was crowded, as always, on a Friday night. It was in a small New England town, but not so small that everybody really knew everybody else. All the stools along a counter...

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