Spirit
By: Massimo Fantuzzi
(To shave against the grain.)
Someplace else might have seen her
Laughing: hidden
Agitation turning vivid in her thousand twirls,
Unafraid stance, like dance to a riot. Revolving
Behind the crashing of waterfall, silk lodging
Her corner stands intolerant to the flock,
Arrowing in jute and roping history, whatever fits best.
Crooked thirst flashes its blade:
Half the street netted in old drains: wailing siren,
Unabridged courage, her marina in unrest.
Vessels are the guitars for the supine sea crust,
Mast, welts, slithers to unravel here capillaries
Like a mutiny of calligraphies and luxuries
For the bonfire of white sheets from the captain’s cabin.
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Massimo Fantuzzi is a British-Italian dual national born in Milan. Lives in Leicestershire. Author of a collection of poems and prose poems, Marcia Gioie (Alkalea, 1999). Degree in Education. Since 2001, works in supporting SEND individuals of all ages in schools and residential settings. Recently his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Alba, Morphrog, Poetry wtf?!, Grey Sparrow Journal, LiteLitOne, Triggerfish Critical Review (where, since publication, he has joined the editorial board), In Parentheses, Poetry Salzburg Review and Bombay Gin. From his window over the National Forest, he dares to keep score of the lasting proceedings between treetops, low clouds and other liminal frontiers.