Brendan Avvisato
Winter 2023 | Poetry
Living in a Shopping Plaza
Walking home through dirt snow sided with a grain field in blue night that looks like a lake in ice. Clouds on top of trains passing by the field with the wheat on board.
A factory is making clouds another night, not reaching highly but still thickening air. Lights are all over.
Again walking but stopped and looking at calves running in the grain under winter trees.
We are still going, driving even near fields that frame and form a stage for mountains. Every new day frames and bricks laid on roads are soon put together then built as our homes spotlighting what we are doing.
Not over, but next to mother and father watching their young roaming yellow open land.
The walk is finished and, home now, a key is found in one pocket of layered jackets. Inside and seated knees bump the steering wheel but not much. After repairs are done,
driving will be nice.
Always going and fast, Brendan Avvisato finds comfort in travel. Settling in to one place feels finished for him and after long there is an innate sense of exploration that he must gratify. The experiences that follow acting on these desires are his source materials. He hopes to communicate freeness and spontaneity through his work. His poems are also in the Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review.