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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



Joyce Nower


POP

Up at 4 AM to hitch the horses
to the flatbed. Day in day out -
a steady provider was the phrase.

Black night lightens in the east
and sketches the first grey lines
of barns and stores.

Stable smells waft
from hooves shuffling on straw,
from yoke, rope, leather harness,

the sweat of men pushing
and pulling drums of kerosene
up the ramp onto the flatbed.

A clicking call, and the duo
softly neighing sets off,
the workmen grunting

encouragement.
The flatbed bellyaches
under its load

as Grandpa steadies it on its route.
Along what avenues?
Flatbush? Fulton past the Old Ferry,

snaking southeast, southwest,
then southeast again? Past
Whitman’s RR tunnel?