Dominion
of shadows returning
not
memory that sees
but
the memory taken
made
vulnerable by changes
jealousies
that rage
bitter
traces of old tears
and
false embraces
become
visions too fierce
too
close your eyes to
in
each evening now
old
wounds flower again
in dark lines like clouds
of
grief that only serve
to
cheat your heart
sun
dress
in
high summer
in
the high heat
she
would wear
her
golden sun dress
cooling
yet decorum cut
yellow
cotten , shining desire
a
swaying image of bright dreams
I
would never know
as
untouchable as
the
august sun itself
cold
front
went
to bed with the sound of thunder
angry
screams at the ending summer
heavy
tears from skies in mourning
their
black bands announcing dying
of
light and warmth and comfort
last swim
leave
not the beach too soon
there
us still perfection in its dunes
wind
sculptured and water formed
pure
with still bright umbrellas
time
still to wash away summers grime
and
dance barefooted on
extending
the bronze on skin
and
the coming winters infernal cold
enduring
the
homeless man on the corner
wheels
his treasures in the yellow shopping cart
to
under a tree in a vacant lot
spreads
his blanket and sits below shading leaves
his
simple pleasure in days of heat
until
dusk cools his monotony
but
brings other dangers of
those
who take sport in helpless homeless
his
eyes constantly over his shoulder
in
his moonlit encampment
shivering
with cold and fear
in
his public display of personal despair
Joseph A Farina is a retired lawyer in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. An internationaly award winning poet. Several of his poems have been published in Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine,The Wild Word,The Chamber Magazine, Lothlorian Poetry Journal,Ascent ,Subterranean Blue and in The Tower Poetry Magazine, Inscribed, The Windsor Review, Boxcar Poetry Revue , and appears in many anthologies including: Sweet Lemons: Writings with a Sicilian Accent, Canadian Italians at Table, Witness from Serengeti Press and Tamaracks: Canadian Poetry for the 21st Century . He has had poems published in the U.S. magazines Mobius, Pyramid Arts, Arabesques, Fiele-Festa, Philedelphia Poets and Memoir (and) . He has had two books of poetry published— The Cancer Chronicles and The Ghosts of Water Street .
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