JOHN MARTONE

FALL/WINTER 2020 ISSUE #01 POET

John Martone’s translation of Giovanni Pascoli, O Little One and Selected Poems recently appeared from Laertes Books. Collections of Martone’s poetry include So Long (Ornithopter), Ksana (Red Moon Press), and Storage Case (Otoliths). Martone also edited Frank Samperi’s Spiritual Necessity: Selected Poems (Station Hill Press) and over the years has edited and published two poetry journals, tel-let and otata. Much of Martone’s work has been privately printed and volumes in English and Italian appear on Scrib’d.

UNFINISHED

It’s the world you imagined. 
Step outside: wren tail,
dragonfly, fiddlehead ... 

a sack of lime the weight 
of a child to spread
till the garden’s bright 

as marble. You get it 
all over you, too, Michelangelo
slaving away deliberately

unfinished.