Photo-op shy, the new frogs leap from the shore ahead of me, and I admit to feeling
overwhelmed by the daily sameness; the miracles of damsel and dragon, the swallows’
nifty gliding, hunting, and the miracle of the tadpoles’ metamorphosis, their
diurnal changes which they are too frightened to share, those powerful new legs, that archaic tail
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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