John L. Stanizzi
©John L. Stanizzi
10.7.19
2.06 p.m.
74 degrees
Placable and warm, the windblown, leaf-blown landscape,
omni-wind, causes the hills to resound like applause;
nervine patois of leaf against leaf, wind through every tree, and on the pond
delaine shimmers skitter across the water, small dimity islands.
2.06 p.m.
74 degrees
Placable and warm, the windblown, leaf-blown landscape,
omni-wind, causes the hills to resound like applause;
nervine patois of leaf against leaf, wind through every tree, and on the pond
delaine shimmers skitter across the water, small dimity islands.
©John L. Stanizzi
10.8.19
6.52 a.m.
55 degrees
Pacified by the easy rain that has softened the leaves on the ground,
overlander to the pond and back every day, today I see these showers as a balm–
work of tiny droplets, each one, with its little concentric splash of replenishment,
descendent feeder of the depleted pond, patient voice of the rain in the trees.
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. John’s 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. His creative non-fiction has been featured in Stone Coast Review, Ovunque Siamo, and Adelaide. John’s work has been translated into Italian and appeared in many journals in Italy. His translator is Angela D’Ambra. John 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
6.52 a.m.
55 degrees
Pacified by the easy rain that has softened the leaves on the ground,
overlander to the pond and back every day, today I see these showers as a balm–
work of tiny droplets, each one, with its little concentric splash of replenishment,
descendent feeder of the depleted pond, patient voice of the rain in the trees.
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. John’s 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. His creative non-fiction has been featured in Stone Coast Review, Ovunque Siamo, and Adelaide. John’s work has been translated into Italian and appeared in many journals in Italy. His translator is Angela D’Ambra. John 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