I, Doug Tanoury, have been writing poetry all of my adult life and I have very strong opinions about poems specifically and poetry in general, but I will spare you dear reader out of human warmth and charity. I live in Detroit, MI USA with my girlfriend Michelle and my stepdog Lola.
The Mediterranean yielded up its pigments, moment by moment, to the brutal sunshine.
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
I described in great detail to her
how the sun was shining
on the Mediterranean that day,
as brightly as in an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel.
The light was brilliant that day.
I stumbled upon Ezra Pound’s plaque
on the wall of a narrow street in Rapallo.
surprised, I slowly read it, for I thought he had lived
in Venice, but now I find he was here too.
I told her of his war years, his capture,
how influential friends saved his life when
they committed him to St. Elizabeth’s.
She smiled as I told her the story of Pound,
and I was uncertain if she was smiling
at Pound’s life or
if she were merely smiling at me
telling her the story of Pound’s life,
but the answer eventually came,
for when she first sees me
on any given occasion,
with her mouth bracketed by
deep parenthetical dimples,
she always smiles at me
as if I myself am Pound’s life.
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