May 2020
Joseph Salvatore Aversano
joseph.aversano@gmail.com
Bio Note: I am a native New Yorker currently living in the Aegean port city of Izmir (Smyrna) with my wife Asu. There are some who go around saying that Izmir was the hometown of Homer, and depending on my mood and how the light falls, I at times go around saying the same. My poetry has been published widely in journals including E-ratio, otata, and Otoliths; and some of my micropoetry is featured in A New Resonance 11 (Red Moon Press, 2019).

Invocation

drawn
up

from
the


well
dark

deep
spil-

ling
light


from
a star

Wading

if only listening


its bird cries

unhinge at
the bill;

& its swaying
screen of

grass thins


into sea

In response to a field recording made by Michelle Tennison.

Tuning in
to Neptune

What if speaking
not from oneself

but from the sea

from its fishes faced
in all its blue direction

w/ the light of above
come as far as a seabed

or till no longer light-----

would one even need
to sound any conch

would sound not
travel in waves

through & through

the medium
of blue?

In response to a photograph taken by John Levy.
©2020 Joseph Salvatore Aversano
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