Bewildered Dancing
humidity licks the steam
from the water
the fog has fallen around you
you remember the sea
as a nervous black space
upon which we tried to dance
the sand like tiny islands
the gulls like scars of light
John L. Stanizzi: 14 collections-Sleepwalking, Chants, others. Besides Passionfruit, he’s in Prairie Schooner, Rattle, others. Nonfiction – Stone Coast, Metaworker others. Former Wesleyan Etherington Scholar, Poet-in-Residence/Manchester Community College. 2021, Connecticut Fellowship/Creative Writing – Non-Fiction-Connecticut Office of Arts. The piece – “Pants,” named by Potato Soup Journal, Best of 2022.