Salvatore Attardo

Pain

Pain is creative
It finds me wherever I hide
Pain is a mile wide
Pain is isosceles
Pain flows downwards
In eddies and rivulets
Pain is symphonic
It takes your breath away
Monocultures of pain
Suffocate all other plants
Pain is companionable
Pain is harmonic
Cuckoo bird pain
Pain rains on its own parade
Pain is retrograde
Pain is my Captain
I am its Tennille


 

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Salvatore Attardo’s poetry and translations have appeared in several magazines, including Asian Cha, Marco Polo Quarterly, the delinquent, Rough Copy, and The Worcester Review. He has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and is currently at work on a book titled “Complex Manifolds and Other Riemann Surfaces: Love Poems.”