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Lawrence N. DiCostanzo
Lawrence N. DiCostanzo
Jesus comes for the cave men
Dawn on the plain, and gray sky.
The grasses bend in light wind,
cold enough that breath is smoke,
and hands are cold. Though skin
on legs and arms is chilled,...
November 5, 2020
Contemplating the continuation of quiet revolution
I find that I like the world more shaggy—
fewer cars, more dust on the streets,
more weeds in the sidewalk cracks.
It’s as if we’d been rushing downhill...
August 19, 2020
Brotherhood
Late March and a cold Good Friday in Parma.
A crowd in coats and scarves fills the Duomo.
The painted cross is lifted. The line shuffles...
June 15, 2017
God enters through the eye
Like a fish that sees the wobbling silver roofThat caps his world, dim, lit by flashes,I look at Mono Lake, its sky and cloudsSilent in a mountain bowl, centered...
April 30, 2015
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