Pen and Ink
Rent from DeepDyve- Pen and Ink
The boy who never speakskeeps his head down,his eyes an inch away from his desk.He’s creating super-monsterswith his black pen,villains and heroes.He hums action musicand when he raises his eyeshe smiles warily, proudlyat his newest creature,all muscle and detail and weaponry,and I think that it just doesn’t matterwhether our place hereis an interior place,landlocked and surrounded by mountains,or next to the sea,open to the rolling in and outof all things imaginable and beyond,nor does it matter whether our homesare large or small,venerated and lavishor fashioned simplyfrom thin black lineson a clean white page. [End Page 158]
John L. Stanizzi is the author of Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall (Antrim House Books), and After the Bell (Big Table Publishing). His poems have appeared in the New York Quarterly, Tar River Poetry, Rattle, Passages North, Freshwater, Spoon River Quarterly, Poet Lore, Connecticut River Review, and many other publications. In 1998 Stanizzi was named New England Poet of the Year by the New England Association of Teachers of English. He has read at many venues throughout Connecticut, and he teaches English in an adjunct capacity at Manchester Community College. Stanizzi lives with his wife, Carol, in Coventry, Connecticut.
