Dancing at Lake Montebello. Lynne Viti

      Dancing at Lake Montebello

      Poems

      Lynne Viti

      Dancing at Lake Montebello

      Poems

      Lynne Viti

      Copyright © 2020 by Lynne Viti

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission from the publisher (except by reviewers who may quote brief passages).

      First Edition

      Paperback ISBN: 978-1-62720-280-0

      Ebook ISBN: 978-1-62720-281-7

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      For Tom, Will and Tony

      Contents

      I. Girls 1

      Biography 2

      Parrot Jungle 3

      Inheritance 4

      Matinee at the Shore 7

      Clifton Park 9

      Labor Day 11

      The Good Father 13

      Hollyhocks in the Alley 15

      My Father’s War 16

      We Called It Armistice Day 18

      Lament 20

      Crabbing on the Isle of Wight Bay 22

      Early Morning in Highlandtown 24

      My Mother on My Cousin’s Wedding Day 26

      Girls 28

      The Color of Her Volkswagen 29

      Inclined Plane, Pulley Wheel & Axle 31

      Engineer 34

      Dancing at Lake Montebello 36

      Judgment 37

      Reckoning 38

      II. Love Drunk 41

      At the Foghorn 42

      Actor 44

      Preparations 45

      Nickel Dreams 47

      I Can’t Get No 49

      Homeleaving 52

      Punting 53

      Starter Wedding 54

      Love Drunk 56

      Greenwich Mean Time 57

      Tremont Street Suppers 59

      Putnam Avenue in Spring 60

      Drinking Games 61

      In Louisburgh, County Mayo, thinking about Dublin 62

      Suze in Midsummer 64

      Brantwood Lane Miscellany 66

      Pâtissière 68

      The Guitar of Solitude 70

      Murphy in August 71

      Ghazal: Returning 72

      Shades at the Reunion 73

      III. More Dangerous for All of Us 75

      I Learned That Marilyn Had Died 76

      Gun Stories 78

      Photos of Your Daughter’s Wedding Under the Mandap,

      Not the Chuppa 80

      Elegy for Alice, Forty-Six 82

      Scattering Alice’s Ashes from the Pont D’Arcôle 83

      Eve’s Diary 84

      Sugar Pumpkins 86

      Weeding the Bittersweet 87

      Last Sunday in July 89

      The Shadow of the Lost Object Falls Across the Ego 90

      How You Were Before 91

      The Dying 92

      Making Love to You Was Like Peeling 94

      More Dangerous for All of Us 95

      Deep Midwinter After-Party 97

      The Summer People 99

      Greyhounds 101

      Leukapheresis 103

      Charm City 104

      Leftovers 106

      God’s Thief 107

      Walking at Day’s End 109

      About the Author 111

      Previous Publications

      A New Ulster, “Early Morning in Highlandtown,” “Inclined Plane, Pulley, Wheel & Axle,” “Weeding the Bittersweet,” “The Stone in Your Chest,” “Shades at the Reunion”

      BlazeVox, “Reckoning,” “Ghazal: Returning”

      Chautauqua Review, “Matinee at the Shore”

      Damfino Journal, “Gun Stories”

      Foliate Oak, “Judgment,” “Preparations,” “I Can’t Get No”

      Gargoyle, “Greyhounds”

      Grey Borders, “Girls,” “Actor,” “Dancing at Lake Montebello,” “Homeleaving,” “Elegy for Alice,” “Love Drunk”

      Grey Sparrow, “The Good Father,” “Engineer”

      Highland Park Poetry Muses Gallery, “In Louisburgh, County Mayo, Thinking of Dublin”

      In-flight Literary Magazine, “Suze in Midsummer,” “The Shadow of the Lost Object”

      Irish Literary Review, “The Dying”

      Journal of Applied Poetics, “Armistice Day”

      Light Journal, “My Father’s War,” “My Mother on My Cousin’s Wedding Day”

      Little Patuxent Review, “I Learned That Marilyn had Died”

      Lost Sparrow: Porcupine, “Deep Midwinter After-Party”

      Meat for Tea: the Valley Review, “Brantwood Lane Miscellany”

      Nixes Mate Review, “Putnam Avenue in Spring”

      Oddball Magazine, “Scattering Alice’s Ashes from the Pont D’Arcôle”

      Old Frog Pond Farm Poem of the Month, July 2016, “Last Sunday in July”

      Origami Poems Project, “Hollyhocks”

      Paterson Literary Review, “Pâtissière”

      Pen-in-Hand, “The Color of Her Volkswagen”

      Poetry Pacific, “Walking at Day’s End”

      Poetry Superhighway, “Biography”

      63Channels, “Making Love to You Was Like Peeling,”