Joseph Salvatore Aversano



THE GREAT DESIGN

whenever drawing an elephant
I start w/ the head

& that’ll think out the rest——

already a tail
     swats at
a fly



PASTORAL SYMPHONY, 1960
(A Tribute to Richard Maxfield)

bits of clipped bug chirp
leaf tipped wing blade of
grass to be fitted back in
in a way we can now call it
a nocturne of the familiar
but w/ moonlit fireflies
when dark



JOHN THE THEOLOGIAN

such is the nature
of this world

that from a beautiful island's
cave mouth cool

an apocalypse




Joseph Salvatore Aversano currently lives with his wife Asu in the Aegean port city of Izmir (Smyrna). A collection of his shorter poems can be found in New Resonance 11: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2019).
 
 
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