Joseph A Farina

traced in shadow
 
in twilight
as the moon rises
and the sun sets
you can see
the alignments of planets
you can feel the pull
of astral houses
rising as you stand
in your gravity
held fast by the near nightfall
and the slow escape
of light

Joseph A Farina is a retired lawyer in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. An award winning, push cart nominee, internationally published poet, his works published in many poetry magazines notably Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, The Windsor Review, and appears in the anthologies Sweet Lemons: Writings with a Sicilian Accent,  Canadian Italians at Table,  Witness  and Tamaracks: Canadian Poetry for the 21st Century. He has had two books of poetry published--The Cancer Chronicles   and   The Ghosts of Water Street and an E-book Sunsets in Black and White, and his latest book, The beach, the street and everything in between.