Bruce Levine

The Filigree of Life

Bruce Levine

Engraved in the midnight sky The stars and planets Outline the universe Projecting the future Onto the darkened screen of night Millennia of patterns Recorded by history As the boundaries reshape the zodiac Forecasting evolution As light-years draft schematics Of time past and time to be told Stories in a melting pot Of liquid iron Molded into bars like a skeleton To be wrought by a blacksmith Into the filigree of life

Bruce Levine has spent his life as a writer of fiction and poetry and as a music and theatre professional. A 2019 Pushcart Prize Poetry nominee, a 2021 Spillwords Press Awards winner, the Featured Writer in WestWard Quarterly Summer 2021 and his bio is featured in “Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2020.” Bruce has over three hundred works published on over twenty-five on-line journals including Ariel Chart, Spillwords, The Drabble; in over seventy print books including Poetry Quarterly, Haiku Journal, Tipton Poetry Journal; Halcyon Days Founder’s Favourites (on-line and print) and his shows have been produced in New York and around the country. His work is dedicated to the loving memory of his late wife, Lydia Franklin. A native Manhattanite, Bruce now lives and writes in Maine. Visit him at www.brucelevine.com