A Poet Looks at Endings and Beginnings By Lynn Taylor
VINCENT SPINA
When Vincent Spina writes a poem, he says he looks for what “sings,” creating a rhythm that supports the images and will carry the reader through the poem. “I don’t think a poem is strictly about meaning; it is also about the
flow of the words, the ‘music.’ This may be how a prayer starts, when something strikes you hard and opens you to a feeling – an image or a piece of the human drama – and you need to find the words that match the feeling that will strike others.”
Vincent Spina was born in Brooklyn and lives in St. Petersburg. He is the author of three traditionally published books of poetry: “Outer Borough,” “Dialogue” and “The Sumptuous Hills of Gulfport.”
Great White Egret: A Sentence Fragment As on that day you passed by a small shallow stream and the great white egret, poised, stock still,
the running water should bring
at one edge, to snatch what nutrition
STELLA'S EXPANDS TO RETAIL! THE LITTLE SHOP THAT CARRIES SOMETHING FOR THAT SOMEONE WHO HAS EVERYTHING
slowed time to a single tick of the clock so that a blank page would open
• QUIRKY KITCHEN
to your eyes and be written on:
• SNARKY BARWARE
the footsteps of your passage,
• GULFPORT HOME DECOR
perhaps meaningless, except within the context of that one eternal moment
• STELLA'S SWAG as on the day worlds collapse and a new one begins.
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