italian poets

Rapunzel

Rattle / May 25, 2024

Think what it must have been like for her, caged
in her tower, the small window cut into dark
stone, the hours it took to brush

Rattle / March 14, 2020

In English we say Padua; in Italian, Padova. In Italian, Basilica di Sant’Antonio; in English, Church of Saint Anthony. Around

Rattle / September 20, 2014

for Antonio Porta We felt it the sisma poetic temblor that radiated from the capital of capitals of church and

Rattle / September 13, 2014

After the summer storm the South wind carried from Africa the fragrance of a thousand jasmines. In the streets small

Rattle / September 6, 2014

Joy shivers in the corner where she sits, And Conscience always has the rocking-chair. —from “New England” by Edwin Arlington

Rattle / March 30, 2014

my father and i are alone together with marilyn dead who will calm us down after a fight one by