(After all the hangings attended first row, applauded waving yellow hankies and blowing raspberry kisses, Hope popped out for a smoke.)
Sky unframed and unimpaired sets to offend the corneas, fuzzy bumblebees hallucinate thoughts of empty beddings. Their leafy collars whistle bloated through a net vision of coordinates, past and present-past uncaptured, wormholes in the mesh freed them from your crib of rough muslin crΓ¨me a grip onto fallen hair the slippery face melts of mother’s heart in purple mantle and drunken stride
out of a shell and into a core, preys the ins and outs like harpooned locket and tide, come to rest on this balcony of soaring drives to watch out for strays, shrines and malaise, present company excluded of course.
Massimo Fantuzzi is a British-Italian dual national born in Milan living in Leicestershire. Author of a collection of poems and prose poems, Marcia Gioie (Alkalea, 1999). After his degree in Education, since 2001, he works in supporting SEND individuals of all ages in schools and residential settings. Member of the editorial board at Triggerfish Critical Review, his poems have appeared in Alba, Morphrog, Poetry wtf?!, Grey Sparrow Journal, LiteLitOne, In Parentheses, Bosphorus Review of Books, Bombay Gin, Poetica Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Poetry Salzburg Review and Orbis. From his window on the National Forest, he dares to keep score of the lasting proceedings between treetops, low clouds and other liminal frontiers.