POETRY
October
October the day
brimmed over with dusk burdens
haze weighed the light he
walked the road with us got a
head of us as usual
so far that the end
of day intervened filled
the gap rendered him
a silhouette of dusk first
I thought we’re losing him but
I made a mistake
I made a mistake it was
he who was losing
us leaving us in twilight
as he moved on toward dawn
John Timpane
John Timpane is the Media Editor/Writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. His work has appeared in Sequoia, The Fox Chase Review, Cleaver, Apiary, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Philadelphia Review of Books, The Rathalla Review, Per Contra, Vocabula Review, and elsewhere. Books include (with Nancy H. Packer) Writing Worth Reading (NY: St. Martin, 1994), It Could Be Verse (Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed, 1995), (with Maureen Watts and the Poetry Center of Cal State San Francisco) Poetry for Dummies, and (with Roland Reisley) Usonia, N.Y.: Building a Community with Frank Lloyd Wright (NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000), plus a poetry chapbook, Burning Bush (Ontario, Canada: Judith Fitzgerald/Cranberry Tree, 2011). His e-mail band, Car Radio Dog, has just released its second CD, Back to the Bone. He is spouse to Maria-Christina Keller, and they are parents of Pilar and Conor.
John Timpane in this Edition
Essay: Religion, Science, and the Legacy of Sir John Templeton
Fiction: Fiction: Or is It?
Poetry: October