Thursday, July 18, 2019

7.4.19 / 7:31 a.m. / 67 degrees by John L. Stanizzi

Punctuation marks swimming in a school? It looks that way from here.
Operating like a single entity, could this be a school of catfish fry? The tadpole's
noddle looks more “frog like” now as he rests on the shore with his
dragontail, and in the trees the wood thrush sews lace with perfect nonchalance.   




John L. Stanizzi is author of Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall, After the Bell, Hallelujah Time!, High Tide – Ebb Tide, Four Bits – Fifty 50-Word Pieces, and Chants. His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, American Life in Poetry, The New York Quarterly, Blue Mountain Review, Paterson Literary Review, The Cortland Review, Rattle, Tar River Poetry, and many others. Stanizzi has been translated into Italian and his work has appeared in many journals in Italy. He has read at venues all over New England, and his newest collection, Sundowning, will be out later this year with Main Street Mag. Stanizzi teaches literature at Manchester Community College in Manchester, CT and he lives with his wife, Carol, in Coventry.

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