Joseph Salvatore Aversano


A PRELIMINARY REPORT

A woman from the village says that in the dry hot days, before the fires ignited the coast, all her goats stayed out in the sun. Out of the shade of any tree. She says they knew.

IN A LONG AND WIDE VALLEY OF ROCK

for Nicholaus Patnaude

in a long and wide valley of rock a man on his donkey from out of nowhere on to nowhere in a long and wide valley of rock


in a long and wide valley of rock a sun spell, a wind, some variation in color out of nowhere and on to nowhere as well


and if it is all one rock in a long and wide valley of rock, then to where else did the man on his donkey go


if anywhere, along with the sun, wind, and variations in color in a long and wide valley of rock

UNPAINTED LANDSCAPES


of simple
subtraction


the steppe



   ⸙


holding
in focus


the sum
of one

smooth
stone

Joseph Salvatore Aversano lives with his wife Asu on the Central Anatolian Steppe. His poetry has most recently been published in Heliosparrow, Die Leere Mitte, and NOON: journal of the short poem.

 
 

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