April 2023
Joe Miano
jmiano@cox.net
Bio Note: I am a retired physics teacher who has written poems ever since High School. I have taught in Kenya with the Peace Corps, in South Bend, Indiana, and in Oklahoma City. I have published two historical fiction novels: A Thief in the African Night: The Conflicts of Change in 2020 and The Scribe of Akrai: Luxo Reveals the Secrets of Trinacria in 2022. They each include a few of my poems and are available on Amazon.

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At Giardini Naxos looking toward Taormina, June 27, 1999

Above Giardini Naxos,
Reclining, lies a goddess
Asleep upon her back.

Arisen from the azure sea –
This siren lured and harbored Greeks,
While Cyclops slept, puffing plumes of smoke
In white halos ‘round his head.

Asleep upon her back,
Her tail upon the azure sea,
‘Till Cyclops stirs and reawakes,
Shooting stars and trembling Earth,
Creating terra firma in the quake.

Above Giardini Naxos,
Reclining, lies a goddess
Asleep upon her back.
(The rock formation above the city forms a reclining goddess.)
©2023 Joe Miano

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