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Crosslighted Subjects
The poet creates a montage of cross lighted objects, askew and out of synch as in a parallax.
cross lighted subjects
in a parallax view
the early morning late autumn sun
rakes the road before me
into a chiaroscuro dappled landscape
where pre-dawn treasure hunters
pick through garage sale tables
looking for martyr’s bones
amid the china and the flatware
crows breakfast upon recent roadkills
entrails steaming in the still chilled air
kamikaze squirrels play xtreme road games
trying to avoid my killing wheels.
addicted to driving these waking streets
looking for faces and their shadows
trying to fill the emptiness
with words or sights or sounds
anything to raise me from the depths
of each morning monotony
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 Chamber Magazine, Ascent, Subterranean Blue, The Tower Poetry Magazine, Inscribed, The Windsor Review among others. His poetry has featured in anthologies including: Sweet Lemons: Writings with a Sicilian Accent, Canadian Italians at Table and Tamaracks: Canadian Poetry for the 21st Century. He has authored two books - The Cancer Chronicles & The Ghosts of Water Street .
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