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FEILE-FESTA
Spring 2011

Poetry

Ancestors
- R. Baldasty
Beloved Albatross
- D. Bastianutti
From Trã Bãn
- K. Cain
The Current (La Corrente)
- L. Calio
Down with the King
- M. Cirelli
May Mass – 1957
- L. Dolan
America
- G. Fagiani
Persephone’s Devotion to Her Mother
- M. Fazio
Bastardu
- V. Fazio
Christmas
- D. Festa
L’Amour, L’Amour on Summer Afternoons (L’Amour, L’Amour D’estati Filuvespiri)
- M. Frasca
Sgrìob
- S. Jackson
Sirocco
- W.F. Lantry
Little Swift
- R. León
Since You Asked
- M. Lisella
Dublin 2010
- V. Maher
39 Fifth Avenue
- C. Matos
Sunrise in Sicily
- A. O’Donnell
Watching Monzú at Work
- F. Polizzi
L’incontru (Rendezvous)
- N. Provenzano
Propriu Quannu Sta Scurannu (When the Day Is Almost Over)
- N. Provenzano
Bones (Le Ossa)
- D. Pucciani
Things
- E. Swados
Mount Etna
- G. Syverson
Poet Jack Foley Says, “We’re Not Writing for Eternity
- J. Wells
Lord of Winter
- A. Zanelli

Vincent F. Maher


Dublin 2010

In Dublin’s soggy city we strolled in rain soft and not so

then in evening’s protracted twilight beams

refracted through Georgian memory and bus horns

meandered hand in hand past Grafton Street buskers and into Stephen’s Green

bussed under lilac bushes and Wilde’s wistful gaze

counted gray cygnets and moon-coloured women who’d doffed their shirts in

the warmth of setting sun that red-etched their lingerie bedecked breasts

that followed the sun like solar panels.

We paused, drank wine and one another each

layer by layer languidly unwrapped, tasted, sipped

savored the proffered vintage examined their legs and colour

barely aged the bite just right for the occasion: fresh.

From our perch I watched a passing lorry on Dawson Street and wondered

was this how Leopold loved his Molly or what drove him to distraction or what?