FEILE-FESTA
Spring 2006
Poetry
Eritrea My Ithaca
- L. Calio
Escape
- P. Corso
Losing a Country
- M. C. Delea
Inclined
- EF Di Giorgio
A Sicilian in Potter’s Field
- G. Fagiani
a color called family
- J. Farina
The Past
- M. M. Gillan
Don’t Speak
- D. Gioseffi
Sharkia
- G. Hanoch
The Old Blatherskites
- T.S. Kerrigan
Seal Woman’s Lament
- C. Loetscher
Barefoot
- C. Lovin
L'amara Primavera
- Q. Marrone
Understudy
- L. A. Moseman
Brooklyn and America
- F. Polizzi
Death of Brahan Seer
- T. Reevy
For Sean Sexton
- T. Sexton
The City at the Center of the World
- A. Verga
Right Angles
- R. Viscusi
Agrigento
- J. Wells
FEILE-FESTA
Spring 2006
Prose
No Matter How Far
- L. Dolan
Ireland and Sicily: Two Islands
- E. Farinella
Southern Exposure
- M. Lisella
Because She Was
- J. O’Loughlin
Flying
- P. Schoenwaldt
Review of DANCES WITH LUIGI
- T. Zeppetella
FEATURED ARTIST
Melissa Kennedy
BIOGRAPHIES
Contributors
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SEAL WOMAN’S LAMENT Lulled by a sweet thrumof waves on shelled strand, tide running the shimmery reef, moon full and cornsilk bright, a shore wanderer on midsummer eve unearths cockles and lugworms, plentiful in the sandy bay. Near waterline where streamlet meets surf and the sheen sand connects boulders on the point, he detects a cry, a haunting keen emerging from the sea a groan like tortured slip hinges: She Who Weeps . He finds her, his selkie* wife, spared to the land, cradled in rockweed eyes desolate and blurred brown crooning like a daft thrush pining for her stolen skin: Away to me, away to me. He knows her despair as he knows the sea, her breath and blood still part of it, skimming the swells like wind spilling into her song, his love for her a groping turmoil, powerless to free her. *A selkie is a Celtic folk creature who bears the form of a seal, but who can assume human form when the moon is full. |