Central California Poetry Journal

Volume 2003 Number 1

The Poetry of Central California Page 0303

The Poetry of Anthony Fedanzo

Anthony Fedanzo makes his home in Marin County, California where he works in the software industry. His poetry appears in on-line in The Alsop Review, The Melic Review, Poetry Magazine, and occasionally on the desks of understanding friends. He writes for fun and for the pure joy of playing with words.

Requiem with Inflatable Shoes

Under a tent facing sweaty marks
a two-hour drive from Mendota,
armed with rubber noses, tuba and trombone
(a unicycle when Cy is sober),
some fall casualties to physics
or the ire of Sneaky Pete, the midget.

Sometimes we die out there;
bomb beneath the vulture stares
of a Salinas afternoon
distempered by grower loans
and endless powdery blowing loam.

Finale inspires the resurrection
when we centered dead can see
meat rising from hard benches
confronting the local Bardos:
mortgage and power, water and seed;
while the twin demons Bank and Bug
joined by Broker, dice for souls.

Love with Convicts and Crows

In the cul-de-sac off a Kern county road
a pickup rocks. This is how I began,
spawned in a backseat beside an overpass

a trucker's copula between breakfast
and sleep, planted like a dashboard saint
or milkshake drip on genuine vinyl.

When we look up, a shuffle step
road gang comes, chants and hoes
in the valley heat, scrapes the asphalt

and clambers on again. Blushless crows
looking in take our measure then caw
at the comic two-backed beast and wink.

Diner of Forgiveness

Alone and fog damp on Highway One
you wait hopeful, unfulfilled. Emptied,
you seek the petroleum Buddha.
There is nothing to do, but wait.

Pump it yourself and save.

Closed. Back soon, it read;
a thick-witted scribble
on the dark-doored diner.

A good place for eats and gas.

Meditate on how the lost implore
the absent for their care.
The promise is clear as graphite;
salvation, a redneck with a gas can.

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