Showing posts with label CONRAD DI DIODATO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CONRAD DI DIODATO. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

CONRAD DI DIODATO



In St. James park


The insupportables of life, and suns in a
stand-off with dust,

unleash the crows on them—just two crows!—
The dark wing, as it's mean
and stand-offish, snagged
and sanded in the same wind and the sun,
 is upon them

Mohawks compete with locals
for some fear, too
Do they mean to join us, in the parks?



Wind and the suns
mean no harm, not with all the tents & the needles
in a row; not when sex cathects a church and compels a lot
    of Love
       Exaction
       Electricity

They mock the AbbĂ© who offers donuts, or the greying
 politico with fairish jaw

 Girls isolated lie sprawled in yurts
 eating out of a can,
 cold-looking

What's it a question of anyways, money, sex, or some signs
  without organs?

Nothing's heavy-handed here! They repeat daily—
  Look!   just
             isolated
             yurts,
             locals,
             girls, cold-bitten



copyright(C)Conrad DiDiodato2011

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

CONRAD DI DIODATO



"Spain haiku"

To parks and through dry city arches—
  Atocha train station

Doves of heaven or large lanky Grecos—
  lost in the Prado

White Franco tourism with the odd goatherd—
  Mijas

An old hippy trail straight to Marrakesh—
  Gibraltar

Gypsies shacked up in a sacred mountain—
  the Alhambra

Fat tourists or Boteros in Lisbon square—
  good morning!

Two leaves for bitter, one for sweet—
  rich man's fountain

Catalonian heat—
wind turbines stuck at 12:20





Conrad DiDiodato teaches high school English in Ontario and has published widely in both print and online magazines. He hosts an annual poetry reading in the beautiful Niagara Region.