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FEILE-FESTA
Spring 2007

Poetry

Cells Remember the Dark Mother
- L. Calio
Civil Twilight
- J. Campbell
Thirteen and Taken to Italy
- A. DiGennaro
Grandpa’s Wine
- G. Fagiani
scenes from an immigrant’s north
- J. Farina
Ritual
- V. Fazio
Embellishing an Irish Bible
- M. Flannery
My Father
- P. Franchini
Antietam’s Bloody Lane
- M. Galvin
Vulcano
- D. Grilli
Cuchulain Looks West from the Cliffs of Moher
- J Hart
Appolonia Remembers Her Wedding Day
- A. Iocavino
Dessert
- R. Leitz
The Same
- M. Lisella
Captured
- S. Mankerian
Penetration
- D. Massengill
On “Tuscan” Things
- N. Matros
Paddy Morgan
- D. Maulsby
Dreaming in Italian
- T. Mendez-Quigley
The Groom’s Lament
- J. Mulligan
Burns Supper
- K. Muth
Santorini
- P. Nicholas
Pop
- J. Nower
Tango, Tangere, Tetigi, Tactum
- M. O'Connor
My Italian Name
- J. Pignetti
A New Life with Bianca
- F. Polizzi
St. Anthony of Padua
- D. Pucciani
Chocolate Craze
- F. Sarafa
Black Irish
- J. Wells



Robert Leitz


DESSERT

You were the afternoon made glad -- and we these two straws
drawn on -- even the pies
we thought about --
an actual peach shake -- the shared dessert
we'd leave -- conducting
valuables. And now -- the more
poorly said -- I'm
listening -- limbs turning in the wind --
a heart transformed --
like steel barn to barn-scrap -- where
the courvoisier
meant much -- and the excited calm
among Thanksgiving company --
parlaying one and one -- seeing
the spider watching
from the shoulder of the love-seat --
deciding the limits of shut space --
the ways we would share ourselves
/ the scented air and venom --
the more at risk desiring / the more
at risk -- assuming
the windy promenade -- the
shelter among the shops
along Protection
Avenue.