42opus
is an online magazine of the literary arts.
30 October 2005 | Vol. 5, No. 3
The Week in Renovation: Sunday
At The Future
Home of the New
Church, phoebes
catch paper
wasps on the wing
all afternoon,
their buzzing cut
in the throat.
The old church
burned. Bad
wires or snapped
road lights
made the dark
darker here,
where they say
if you saw
someone walking,
you didn't
see anything.
About the author:
Carolyn Guinzio's book West Pullman won the 2004 Bordighera Poetry Prize and will appear in a bilingual English/Italian edition this year. A new manuscript was one of ten finalists for the 2005 Del Sol Press Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Luna, New American Writing, Octopus, Colorado Review, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. Carolyn has an MFA from Bard College and has received awards from the Illinois Arts Council, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Kentucky Arts Council among others.
Source:
http://42opus.com/v5n3/sunday
