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dan sicoli

Between working at various vocations in Niagara Falls, New York including baker, sales manager, cheese packer, and printer, I've placed poems with numerous litmags, ezines, anthologies, and broadsheets. I co-founded Slipstream Magazine and Press in 1980 and have been a co-editor ever since.
     Lately, I have discovered that more and more of my hair appears to collect around the shower drain. Not a good omen.


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    late november, no work

    once in that rented room
    small and modest
    it finally dropped on me
    and
    in a way
    my shoulders collapsed
    relieved
    as i panned night
    for an omen
    an opening

    from this small high window
    ice pellets slapped the thick glass and
    bulleted the scurry of pavement chaos below

    patient
    i checked for towels and
    took a shower just
    to warm myself
    then fell tight in bed
    laboring down six bottles of ale
    as the bills played some team wearing unfamiliar uniforms
    i couldn’t even tell you
    what place they were in


    song for sonya

    here lover
    come
    let’s undress
    this sex between

    disarm and expose
    native tongue
    liquid as air and soliloquy

    in curled edges of
    punch bag hearts
    our sameness thrives

    oh that man
    that city worker with connections
    with pupils warm as black ice
    with shoulders big as movie idol
    and a shadow that lingers like
    the color of a bruise long after pain subsides

    yet you withstood
    too long

    but here
    naked as thoughts would allow
    we meet on the lam
    and your tension collapses

    incensed
    this adrenalin comes to collect a debt
    i want him in soil

    it’s not that you should have
    worn my sheets as flags
    or pretend to recall something we might have held
    sonya, you simply are deserving of better

    confess
    re-liberate
    unfurl hands
    bring on a new ministry

     

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