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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


Judy Wells


AGRIGENTO

I am a telamon.
I was created with my brothers
to support a great weight
with my arms and shoulders.
I consider this an important job
for people come to worship
at the temple we hold up.
 
In the morning, when the sun
strikes our deity
and the goat is slaughtered
we feel most proud.
Even though the smoke may blow
in our direction,
we are never offered the meat.
 
The priests believe we are made
of stone.
They do not know
we move at night,
trying to shift that uncomfortable weight
off our shoulders.
Sometimes, one of my three brothers
does not bear his load
and more weight shifts to us others.
But mainly, we cooperate.
 
If, in the morning,
a priest spots a crack
in the frieze above us
he worries about earth tremors.
We laugh. It's our shiftiness
he has spotted without knowing it.
Of course, this causes other cracks,
we, telamones, laughing.
 
This is one of our few pleasures.
We, telamones,
who bear
the weight
of the world.