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dark fire on 3rd street
moons of the blind child’s fingertips
bay out to a silent sun
when the black blaze of scavenger crows
upstages harley roars and fireworks
she stirs
from her pillow of sable feathers
her slender finger and long nail
like a wand
like a metronome
out her loft window
midgets gather amazed
dogs curl tails under backsides
tattooed women suck tamed smoke
cower in places
only newsboys frequent
overnight
like instinct
coagulated silence returns
in the absence of crows
the pillow is unfulfilled
hollowed from
a head of a woman who now
paces across warm rug and cold tiles
having yet felt the embrace of a man
moons of the child’s fingertips
hunger for solar flares
Dan Sicoli
Dan Sicoli (Niagara Falls, NY) is a co-editor with
and coffee beans have often made their way into his
poetry. Pudding House Publications recently released
his chapbook, Pagan Supper and another chapbook, the
allegories, will be released in 2004. Other poems have
appeared in Concrete Wolf, Whirligig, Re)verb, Barbaric
Yawp, Maelstrom, Rockzilla.net, Tokens: Contemporary
Poetry for the Subway, and numerous litmags anthologies.
Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, he performs his
work regularly, often in collaboration with other writers.
