Who Knows, Maybe
by Eugenio Montale
Who knows, maybe one day I’ll be witness
to the miracle occurring over my shoulder
in an air of glass: behind me, nothing less
than the void, stricken with a drunkard’s fear.
Then, as if on-screen, things suddenly
appear: trees, houses, hills ‒ the familiar illusions.
Too late; and I’ll just wander off quietly
into the faceless crowd, armed with my vision.
[read more at On the Seawall]
P O E T R Y • O N L I N E
2021
“But I Was Young” & “To-Do List” – Monday Night • “Reading Yiddish” – The Night Heron Barks • “Watercolor of Two Cranes” – Ligeia Magazine • “Arachne” – TELEPHONE • “Re:” & “Surrounded by Fire” – Juke Joint • “Homage to the Italian Language” – Raintown Review • “New Year’s Morning in Mystic, Connecticut” – BigCityLit • “What I Think About When I Think About Running” “Winter” & “Conjuror” – Verse-Virtual • Three Poems by Eugenio Montale: “Who Knows, Maybe” “Above the Graffitied Wall” & “Euphrates” – On the Seawall • “Solstice” – One Sentence Poems • “Pandemic!” & “Promise” – Verse-Virtual
2020
“Still” – Rattle Poets Respond • “Bad Atonement” & “Kavafis” – THINK Journal • “Elegy in Via Giulia” – Soundings East • “Landscape” & “Hunter” – Verse-Virtual • “Crossed” – Making Up (Picture Show Press, anthology) • “Ninotchka” & “Time Traveler” – Verse-Vitual • “Shattered” – Furious Gazelle • “Serendipity”, “The Door” & “Duality” – Verse-Virtual • “Upstate” – Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge, Editor’s Choice • “St. Peter’s Square” – First Things • “In Krasnaya Gorka” – Tinderbox Poetry Journal • “Lost Astronaut” – Boston Accent Lit • “Impossible Bottle” – ROOM • “Prayer” – Free Inquiry • “Waning Moon”– First Things • “To a Warbler” – Rust+Moth • “Dark Matter” & “Unsentimental Journey” – Verse-Virtual • “The Voidoids Play CBGB, Late ’77” – Ghost City Review • “Open Mic Night” – Ligeia Magazine • “Hit & Run”, “Lutherville”, “Speed Freak” & “With Our Bare Hands” – Loch Raven Review • “Geniza” – Italian Americana • “Self-Portrait in a New Year’s Ball” – Verse-Virtual • “Cubism” – One Sentence Poems • “Death Box” – Ligeia Magazine
2019
“Crabs” – Valparaiso Poetry Review • “Lush Life” – Furious Gazelle • “Pentameter” “Arithmetic” & “In Edinburgh” – Orchards Poetry Journal • “Unburial” – Unearthed • “How It’s Made” – an interview with Frontier Poetry • “In Poland, Once” – Rivet Journal • “Heaven” – Loch Raven Review • “Making a Jack-O-Lantern” & “Blood Stiletto” – Vamp Cat Magazine (thanks for the Pushcart nomination!) • “What Happened at the Baptism” – Matador Review • “Epiphanies” – Verse-Virtual • “Requiem for an Ocean Burial” – Palette Poetry (nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize by the anthology What Remains: The Many Ways We Say Goodbye.) • “Caravaggio Was Our Matchmaker” – Verse-Virtual • “Runaway” – Baltimore Review • “Still Life with City” – Verse-Virtual • “On Maujer St.” – Flatbush Review • “The Skaters” – Innisfree Poetry Journal • “Dear Cuck” – Rattle • “New Year’s Eve” – Verse-Virtual
2018
“A User’s Guide to Rocks and Minerals” – Verse-Virtual • “Cat Person” – The Road Not Taken – A Journal of Formal Poetry • “Starman” – Verse-Virtual • “Breaking” – Poets • Reading the News • “Somebody Suggested the World Needed More Vampire Poems, So I Wrote One” – Verse-Virtual • “Submission Guidelines” – Gravel • “To the Night Sky”, “Luftmensch” & “To Ink” – Verse-Virtual • “Pawn’s Game” & “Blue Ridge Service Station” – Tuck Magazine • “National Day of Atonement” – Writers Resist • “To the Horned Moon” – Verse-Virtual • “Space Station Crew Sees Lots of Clouds” – Ekphrastic Review • “Worth It” – Rattle ‘Poets Respond’ • “The King Is Dead” – Poets Reading the News
2017
“Morpheus in West Virginia” – Poets Reading the News
2011
“Samuel Menashe Reads at the Harvard Club (pdf)” – Italian Americana
2009
“Death of an Artist” & On My Great Grandfather’s 131st Birthday” (pdf) – Poetry Salzburg Review • Poems of Mario dell’Arco & Translating Mario dell’Arco – Journal of Italian Translation (These are, to my knowledge, the only translations available in English of this great Italian poet.)
2008
“The Muhammadiad” – The New Yorker • “Seagulls” , “Poets” & “Memorandum” – Battered Suitcase
2007
“Time Traveler” – Big City Lit
2002
“Ninotchka” – Pivot • “Thunder” – Pivot
2000
“Genesis” – Greetings
