Joseph Salvatore Aversano


LISTENINGS
	for John Levy


    I.

listening

with an ear
to the ground

is a prostration
of sorts


more because
of listening

than of having
one's head

lowered
down



   II. 

when only listening

the other senses
seem to go


but they
are listening


with the tongue
nose, and eye

all ears



A BONEWISH

a cruder augury

of pulling apart what
connects

the neck bone to
the breast bone

and all hope of song
ever coming

from the bird's
dead heart



ELEPHANTINE STEALTH

No one’s ever asked how
the elephant in the room
ever got into it.

I suspect it’s morphed
into a  metaphor

we no longer hear

and into the very
word for itself

as a conception

slipped past the
raj’s guards. 

Joseph Salvatore Aversano is a native New Yorker currently living on the Central Anatolian Steppe. His more recent poetry has been published in Die Leere Mitte, Modern Haiku, NOON: journal of the short poem, Otoliths, and Sonic Boom.

 
 

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