Storm Poem

by Anthony DeGregorio

The light in the neighbor’s house is muted yellow, as if they have replaced their bulbs with dusk’s filament twitching through electric candles. The attic’s dormer is illuminated behind small curtains. A figure moves side to side, approaches the window, never spreads the curtains. Looking out at the storm, the outline of a face turns upward to the darkening sky and flying leaves, the bending branches contorting, threatening to break. The face is searching for its twin within the sheets of rain pouring a drenched apparition.   

Anthony DeGregorio’s writing has appeared or is scheduled to appear in various publications, including Libre, Abandoned Mine, Italian America Magazine, Aromatica Poetica, Bloom, Nowhere, Wales Haiku Journal, Polu Texni, and So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library.

He taught writing at Manhattanville College for twenty years, and in another life or two or three he worked in various capacities for the Department of Social Services, much of that time while teaching at night. Prior to that is anyone’s guess, but don’t let that stop you.