All about: light

Reading: Sunbathing by David Baker
David Baker is an American poet and professor of English born in 1954. His poetry books have titles like Never-Ending birds, Changeable Thunder, or The truth about small towns. I liked this poem at first sight. The subtle rhyme and rhythm of the first verse, until "I suppose he is", is a fine poetic craftwork. Both - chokes, ...
the I is a by-light a grievance by a wild fire the grammar of layered time
Reading: Via Velasca by Leonardo Sinisgalli
Leonardo Sinisgalli (1908-1981) studied engineering and mathematics before he became a poet, and they appear to call him the "engineer poet". Here is a collection of his poetry in Italian. I found this impressionist poem about a street, in the translation of W.S. di Piero, and I quote: Via Velasca Years of pounding have nearly Caved ...
Reading: M – Black Monday by Marcin Świetlicki
Today there is this compact poem by Marcin Świetlicki for our ideosyncratic anthology. As usual, I'll say what struck me about these lines. The moment when all the town's streetlamps light up simultaneously. The moment when you say your incredible "no," and suddenly I don't know what to do next: die? go away? not respond? ...