John Coletti

John Coletti is a recovering JackMormon living by a dogwood among Ginka

Biloba miniature straits in the Province of Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

He works as an Artistic Director in Manhattan for the web design company

Nylon Designs. Recent or forthcoming works from

his manuscript "pirdybirdymycupwhatcolorsyours" appear or have appeared in

Gulf Coast and Log. He can be reached at john@nylondesigns.com.

Yankee Clippings

A sympathetic eye

I like that unlike

Tomahawk missiles

In the Adriatic

Sea 2 portraits

Of colored in

Destruction's "Woo-Hoo"

"Bombs Away!"

By the Post

The Times aligns

2 Bunsen Burners

2 incendiary

Photographs

Of magnesium irises

And molten iron's white-red

A tricked out iris

Set on "BOOM"

A marigold's blend:

"HOT WHITE

AND DEADLY:"

I think Brett Easton

Ellis is a private Tick

In a bow-tie

But when he said

The Media Sieve

And the Frilly Costume

On Unrealism 's

"Who knows?"

Even he made at

Least some sense

Beside this other clipping

Of Tom Waits in Austin

Impersonating an osprey

These gorgeous Ground Blooms

Firework fuses

Above pine trees

Everyone ignores

Their Genie's advice

Inside space station Kosovo

Burning like irises

In real human eyes

At aqueduct

Sheldon's Avenger

Exclusive Affair

and

Little Champ

Run across the Tube

While I finish my 3rd Rheingold

Mug at lunchtime

Pepper mouthed

Though fairly unfunny

I too am your culprit

As Tom Jones pops up

Singing a theme song

For March 25th. 1999

"My

My

My Delilah,

Forgive me Delilah

once more."

John Coletti