Barbara Strignano, 47. I work and live in NYC. It is not a quiet place, but it does have some benefits. I have worked in the Swiss Watch Industry for many years. Some of my favorite modern authors are: Anne Rice, Stephen Lawhead. I am teaching myself Visual Basic 6.0. After, if you get through SAP R/3 the rest is icing. I studied for 6 years with the poet Tom McKweon who had been with the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

The Cloak
The night air heavy
as a furnace levitates
to the surface, quaking

opening arms like trawl lines.

A brave fever full of nerve
and granite seizes the lines
circling like a white lantern.

The bright blue blade
of light
hurls its wrap
till the color of you

flares against the Northern sky.

Copyright © 2000 by Barbara Strignano

The Cloak

The night air heavy as a furnace levitates to the surface, quaking opening arms like trawl lines. A brave fever full of nerve and granite seizes the lines circling like a white lantern. The bright blue blade of light hurls its wrap till the color of you flares against the Northern sky.

Copyright © 2000 by Barbara Strignano

The night air heavy
as a furnace levitates
to the surface, quaking

opening arms like trawl lines.

A brave fever full of nerve
and granite seizes the lines
circling like a white lantern.

The bright blue blade
of light
hurls its wrap
till the color of you

flares against the Northern sky.