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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TRANSPARENT LIFE, by LUIGI FONTANELLA First Line: The city opens its streets | |||
the city opens its streets, bicycles go by riderless, a woman's face in a window appears then vanishes, shop-windows offer fetishes for every season, lives turning, a slender agile couple dances in the deserted piazza, the race men run, the hairy woods shivering against the grain of light, footsteps on leaves and furrows of stiff mud, avenue of autumn royal coach rain of dew and paper -- the transparent life. Used by permission of Story Line Press. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FATHER-SEQUENCE by LUIGI FONTANELLA SLEEPLESSNESS by LUIGI FONTANELLA VICTORIA STATION by LUIGI FONTANELLA SYMPATHY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON MOTHER NIGHT by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON OCTAVES: 16 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
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