Joseph Salvatore Aversano


ANATOLIA




just where to break the

floating
still

ness
a dragon

fly




Φ




thistled

by perennial
fritillaries


as involucre

subtend aware
ness




Φ




a tree thought
you thought was
your own

as if a
telepath
in a crowd

of stirred
leaves




Φ




is it the entire plant

or is it its seed
that blooms

or is it the iris
of the eye




Φ




a
mur
muration’s

           mind of
     its own







Φ





APPENDIX:


EARLY WARNING*
(SE TURKEY)


a stray mongrel
moans more
than howls

down the
block down
into the night

and at what at
nothing for our
being on
    this earth



*just minutes before the first of two major quakes that shook SE Turkey and NW Syria on February 6, 2023.

Joseph Salvatore Aversano lives on the Central Anatolian Steppe with his wife Asu. His most recent poems are published in Bones: journal for the short verse, Die Leere Mitte, Otoliths, NOON: journal of the short poem, Sonic Boom, and in the Modern Haiku Press anthology Haiku 2023. He is the founding curator/editor of Half Day Moon Press, a publisher of digital chapbooks which has tree saplings planted for each release. Half Day Moon Press | Joseph Salvatore Aversano

 
 

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