Fresh Ink 2022
Poems by Kenneth DiMaggio
The Hartford Anthology 1-5 #1 Warning: Bad man up ahead 16-or-17-year-old girl unaware of a premature life crash Ten years later it becomes a riveting story in my creative writing class Too many such stories like the one from an Olympic- bound gymnast now fulltime student at community college while working as a certified nursing assistant Yet upon one line in a story or poem written in an illegally smoked cigarette breakroom the past balances long enough with the present to sculpt a future in poise and harmony Wreckage which the writer can now leave Healing in a tomorrow without cigarettes but with notebook secretly written between patients’ feedings and mandated employee meetings * 90
