Pond-skater – just one – its four legs, thin as lashes, rest on the water,
oblong indentations on the pond, and three tiny water-spiders, small brown
nymphettes half the size of your pinkie-nail, chase each other over the algae as,
dashed by the wind, the pond shimmers, though here at my feet it is still.
John L. Stanizzi is author of the collections – Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall, After the Bell, Hallelujah Time!, High Tide – Ebb Tide, Four Bits, Chants, and his newest collection, Sundowning, just out with Main Street Rag. His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Rust & Moth, American Life in Poetry, The New York Quarterly, Paterson Literary Review, Blue Mountain Review, The Cortland Review, Rattle, Tar River Poetry, Connecticut River Review, Hawk & Handsaw, Third Wednesday, and many others. John's creative non-fiction has been featured in Stone Coast Review, Ovunque Siamo, and Adelaide. His work has been translated into Italian and appeared in many journals in Italy. John's translator is Angela D’Ambra. He has read at venues all over New England, including the Mystic Arts Café, the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, Hartford Stage, and many others. For many years, John coordinated the Fresh Voices Poetry Competition for Young Poets at Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT. He is also a teaching artist for the national recitation contest, Poetry Out Loud. John is a former New England Poet of the Year, and teaches literature at Manchester Community College in Manchester, CT where he lives with his wife, Carol, in Coventry. http://www.johnlstanizzi.com
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