Current Address

 Michael Tritto

  

This is his address.

 

You can find him here,

watching behind sheers

that cloud a window.

 

He’ll go back to the same

winged chair in the front room

of this house, of the one before.

 

Sometimes he’s caught

on the stairs by a laugh

that knows him well.

 

His eyes will open in the dark

where years drift

across the papered walls.

 

This is where he stays,

where trees have raised

sidewalks in a city

four lifetimes old.

 

The houses lean here

as if uncomfortable.

 

Wind plays its classics,

clipping leaves into flight.

 

He pays scant attention

to the worn and missing numbers,

address being his next breath.

 

 

[This poem was first  published in The Cherry Blossom Review]

 


Michael Tritto has been writing poetry since the early seventies.  His work has appeared in many journals throughout the US, and in England, Ireland and Australia. Michael is retired from teaching Spanish in the Buffalo Public Schools.

 

 

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