A Literary Magazine in Support of the Jewish Community
In the First Person
I must be somewhere in this mess of words
though I’m not sure exactly where I is.
Am I the subject or the predicate,
the sturdy noun or gallivanting verb?
Intricate adjective? Inverted clause?
Or something subtler—a minimal pause
between two lines, the breath of a comma?
All of these together? In this drama-
tis personae, the first person’s been deposed.
Marc Alan Di Martino
Marc Alan Di Martino’s books include Day Lasts Forever: Selected Poems of Mario dell'Arco (World Poetry, 2024—longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation), Love Poem with Pomegranate (Ghost City, 2023), Still Life with City (Pski's Porch, 2022) and Unburial (Kelsay, 2019). His poems and translations appear in Apple Valley Review, Bad Lilies, Palette Poetry and many other journals and anthologies. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Currently a reader for Baltimore Review, he lives in Italy.
