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Volume I, Number 1 (Summer 2006)
ISSN 1934-4324

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Daniele Pantano

Daniele Pantano is a poet, translator, and editor. He was born in Langenthal, Switzerland, of Sicilian and German parentage. An exile, he currently lives in Brandon, Florida, with his wife and their two children, and teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of South Florida.

Mountain Life

AND THE CORRESPONDENCE AMONG OURSELVES

EVERY SO OFTEN

 


MOUNTAIN LIFE

 

One northern night the perfect poem will arrive.

I will type it, read it once, and throw it away.

 

Gulp my aquavit. Take my cigarettes. Very gently

kiss my kids. And her. Put on my wool cardigan.

 

Walk to the fjord and stay for the first ferry,

reckoning how not to write the subsequent life.

TOP

 

AND THE CORRESPONDENCE

AMONG OURSELVES

 

remains anonymous.

 

We are not bothered

by the faces of frayed

women who escaped

the washed milieu:

mustaches and aftershave.

We are not bothered

by the smell of oranges.

Only the taciturn call

of dusty furniture and life's

murder in silver frames

tighten our chains

 

for ghosts have a facile

way of penetrating our

soul's cracked mortar

 

they rest within

inflict a tender instant

and exit

 

only to return

unannounced

over and over

and over

TOP

 

EVERY SO OFTEN

 

remembrance appears

around the corner

 

via a piece of literature

a freshly picked fruit

a scent

 

echo of an innocent view

 

it appears as a reminder:

nothing in our lives ever disappears

 

it all merely lingers--faceless

here and there

 

and every so often

it knocks on your door

seeking shelter for the night

 

TOP

 


 

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