Prophesying the kind of joy that is yet to come, in
octaves that we can never hear, the cedar raises its
nubby arms into the rain falling on the pond with the sound of the
distant applause of other small voices barely heard but there.
John L. Stanizzi’s books are Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall, After the Bell, Hallelujah Time!, High Tide – Ebb Tide, Four Bits, Chants, and Sundowning. His work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, American Life in Poetry, New York Quarterly, and others. John teaches at Manchester Community College in Connecticut.
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