Poems

Venetian Duet

we step onto the narrow bridge

she hitches her skirt

summons me to play
her succulent violin

draw my tongue's tip
across black strings

compose the sonata
of a million unborn sins

nocturnes circulate
as the evening sighs

the adagio of executions

                

Fugue

night harvests her scent

unfurled limbs:

the calligraphy of seduction

nomads whisper sixty-nine borders

dermal concord

every crossing a pant of energy

every penetration a lacuna of refuge

©2006 by Daniele Pantano

                                                                                                                                                                                               

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Daniele Pantano is an award-winning poet, translator, and editor of several European and American literary journals (Härter, Niederngasse, M.A.G.). Of Sicilian and German parentage, he was born in Langenthal, Switzerland. His individual works have been featured or are forthcoming in journals and anthologies in Europe, Asia, and the United States, including The Baltimore Review, Gradiva: International Journal of Italian Poetry, Lilliput Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Poetry International, and Poetic Voices Without Borders. He currently lives in Brandon, Florida, with his wife and their two children.