Joseph Salvatore Aversano

Spells Against Night Blindness


night if the pupil dilates    into a new moon    night if one can sit in it
                          unseen    night if it is hummed    from the inside
                                                             of the chest    out sounding
                                                                                         the dark



[untitled]

each side of
the mountain needed

for there to be a mountain
side of the valley needed

for there to be
a vale

Joseph Salvatore Aversano currently lives with his wife Asu in the Aegean port city of Izmir (Smyrna); and he counts himself among those making the claim that it was indeed the hometown of Homer. He is the author of the recently published chapbook When Izmir is the Sound of Silver (otata’s bookshelf, 2018).
 
 
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