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R o c k   S a l t   P l u m   R e v i e w                                 Spring 2007

J.R. Solonche - One Stanza of a Poem

Followed by Daydreaming

J.R. Solonche

I sit at my desk under the window

reading the poems of Su Tung-p'o.

You play Schumann at the piano.

Emily runs up & down the hall.

Behind me I hear through the window

crickets chanting the poems of Su Tung-p'o.

Schumann plays duets at the piano.

Emily runs up & down the hall.

You sit at my desk under the window

humming the poems of Su Tung-p'o

accompanied by Schumann at the piano.

Emily runs up & down the hall.

Schumann flies in the window

on the back of a poem by Su Tung-p'o.

I hear you close the lid of the piano.

A cricket runs up & down the hall.

What is Emily doing at the window?

I tear out the poems of Su Tung-p'o,

wedge them into the strings of the piano.

You run up & down the hall.

You jump out of the window

the lawn where Su Tung-p'o

is writing a poem about a piano.

I run up & down the hall.

Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief

All kill their inspiration and sing about the grief.

                                       - Bono Vocce

Mikey Welsh - bullard has troubles

J.R. Solonche is coauthor (with wife Joan Siegel) of PEACH GIRL: POEMS FOR A

CHINESE DAUGHTER (Grayson Books). His poems have appeared in many magazines

and journals, as well as anthologies. He teaches at Orange County Commmunity

College in Middletown, New York.