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Carmine Giordano Poetry

Even with cancer the dog
has to be fed and the trash
has to be bundled and 
put out at the curb and the
pork roast needs to be 
all thawed out before it
can take the soy dressing
while the day paces itself
as it always does morning
sifting to afternoon quiet
light softening in the living room 
the fan spinning the air about
the sofa filled with fabric peonies
and green gold leaves on vines
and time stilled on the wall tapestry
where a mill wheel is churning 
a sleeve of blue water out 
into the middle of the room 
silently, always — forever

 

 

 

About Carmine Giordano
Carmine Giordano is a lecturer in English at Palm Beach State College and Associate Editor at Abalone Moon (an online poetry magazine), as well as a retired NYC English teacher. He won a Fulbright Award in 1993. He is the author of three poetry collections, The Courage of Flowers, The Hero's Journey, and Still Sing. He has been published in the River Poets Journal, Abalone Moon, Poets of the Palm Beaches Anthology, and Perspectives.

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