Author: davestankowicz

Dave Stankowicz is a retired educator who lives on an island off the coast of Portland, Maine with his wife Debbie Jordan and their dog Jade. Liberated from the responsibilities of teaching he has found the space and time to pursue so much that interests him. Besides writing and photography Dave hosts a weekly radio show - Palm Wine Radio. As D.J. Zachariah, he plays African music on Monday mornings from 10:30 - Noon at WMPG.org. He continues his efforts to master space and time.

Lost Capacity


 The lost capacity
 to foresee
 and to forestall.
 
 Margaux makes fresh eye contact,
 fibrous slivers,
 a sickly resemblance to
 scrambled eggs.
 
 Her plan to elude the elderly
 resembles the skeleton of
 a shark’s jaw;
 the rapidly accelerating collapse
 of the Great Dying,
 a sulphuric stew
 with somewhat more circumspection.
 
 The ice started a fire;
 there is no other evidence or 
 indicia of truth.
 
 She was fully aware of the power
 that came with being ill,
 and annexed over the future
 of the universe.
 
 Like a perpetual motion machine
 outside the threshold of
 the church,
 something has snapped inside,
 evil is not subsiding,
 an emptiness of the soul,
 irrevocable loss weighing
 on the heart.
 
 Irving is giving me
 a good spanking
 with a shoe.

Each New Day


 Each new day requires
 careful preparation,
 lest one be infected by
 the epidemic of imbecility,
 the decayed culture of
 the common,
 a loud cacophony
 of barking dogs,
 devoid of the reciprocity
 of balanced conversation or 
 the open grace of generosity. 

Portland, Maine