John L. Stanizzi

Connecticut teacher, author, and poet

Excerpts

“Woven Water” (mixed media on paper) - Barbara Hocker

WOVEN WATER

More than once we hear him address the sea;
the rage for order, as Stevens says, is blessed,
and even our dreams, as they wind across the width

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TATTOOS

Unlike the other men in the family, my father
has no chains or skunks with attitude,
or his last name over crossed Italian flags,

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