David Dragone's poems have appeared in Avocet Review, California Quarterly, Common Ground Review, The Providence Sunday Journal, Newport Life, and others. His poetry has also been broadcast on WRNI, Rhode Island’s NPR station. Trinity Repertory Company in Providence also featured one of his poems.
David lives in Middletown with his wife and son and is a member of the Ocean State Poets.
► David's Origami micro-chapbooks & selected poems are below.
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{mooblock=Winter Pond}
Fishermen pick holes through frozen lakes.
Skaters sculpt hieroglyphs, drawing frosty lines With skate blades shaving ice-spray From ankles, knees, hips, legs, all angles And whirling arms too. Their whole bodies blur in fog breaths Reflected glides over crystal ponds Mirroring their feet at the carving edge Of sky and water. Flight or drowning Gambles on uncertain ice And cold wind that softens no fall But brushes white snow silence Over the pond center’s brittle. Men tramp back from fishing Hauling in their catch Each line growing heavy Baited with unspoken fears of cracking ice. Fish flop around in buckets Braving as much as they can Back into the center Of their cold brave eyes.
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David Dragone © 2012
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{mooblock=Opening Poems}
The sea builds green waves
That crash against each boulder With a springing heart.
Golden lazy skies
Bloom with darkled thunderheads Until rain gets born.
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David Dragone © 2012
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