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2 Poems

By Joel Allegretti
Spring 2021 | Poetry

A West Coast Seascape on a Black Canvas

             After an episode of  The Joy of Painting

In these dark Pacific waters

             slapping the rocky bluff

and polishing the SoCal sand

             to a spit-shine sheen

under night clouds billowing,

             Dennis Wilson

didn’t go swimming with

             Charles Manson.

Dracula Betrayed, or Nosferatu Negated

A bat flaps through

an open window

of a country home.

It sees its reflection

in a bedroom mirror.

Joel Allegretti is the author of, most recently, Platypus (NYQ Books, 2017), a collection of poems, prose, and performance texts, and Our Dolphin (Thrice Publishing, 2016), a novella. He is the editor of Rabbit Ears: TV Poems (NYQ Books, 2015). The Boston Globe called Rabbit Ears “cleverly edited” and “a smart exploration of the many, many meanings of TV.”


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