Salvatore Buttaci
edition #5 -Poet
Now you see it
Magicians can pull rabbits and scarves
popping out of tall stovepipe hats.
They can saw folks in half, make coins appear
and disappear, wave wands over a handkerchief
from which out of nowhere ascend white love doves.
I have only an alphabet of letters
to form words fashioned from what keeps my heart
beating against the chest of me,
only new-made poems to walk you through
line by line until you are taken by surprise
and dancing light and carefree you take
to the soft mid-air as the angel you are.
These poems wrapped in good intentions
are my only gifts, my only sleight of hand.
I have no white gloves, no real magic at all.
(I confess this with words.).
The poems, letters, and stories of Salvatore Buttaci have been published in The New York Times, Newsday, U.S.A. Today, The Writer, Cats Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, and widely elsewhere in America and overseas. His newest book, A Dusting of Star Fall: Love Poems, is currently available directly from the author. Buttaci lives in West Virginia, with Sharon, the love of his lif
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