JOSEPH ZACCARDI
November 27, 2010
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DEFIANCE
When writing about the wants of the heart
and the defects of the mind, words often confuse
the end of one day with the beginning of another.
They neither can prove eternity nor the existence
of nothing and for all that they justify both.
Words have great limits and great refusals.
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COVENANT
There is on the bottom of the ocean, silence.
Under all that movable weight, silence.
Like when someone whose arms
encircle the body of another, first
says one thing, then does something else.
The weight of that.
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ACCURACY
Words can define devastation and beauty
with equal accuracy. Here’s one: I learned
in the last hour that a friend’s daughter
died in a head-on collision.
Something instantaneous,
something as simple
as that.
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Fairfax, California poet Joseph Zaccardi is editor of the Marin Poetry Center Anthology. He is the author of two books of poetry, Vents (Pancake Press, 2005) and Render (Poetic Matrix Press, 2009). He received the Individual Artists Grant from the Marin Arts Council in 2003
Center Anthology. He is the author of two books of poetry, Vents (Pancake Press, 2005) and Render (Poetic Matrix Press, 2009). He received the Individual Artists Grant from the Marin Arts Council in 2003.
