In Memory Boxes
. . . and your
fine yellow hair
lilting like a
childish song
is finally gone,
gone
the handsome
brocade
upon your collar.
Your eyes and
nose like marbles
roll to corners
and the fluttering seductions
of your mouth lie
now
utterly still.
This is my will,
these are the
bric-a-brac I’ve broken,
the such-and-such
I roughly tucked away so I could touch
the
loneliness of your face.
By day, Don Zirilli is a director of web
programming for a healthcare informatics company. Most of the rest of the time, he is writing
poetry, taking photographs and making art.
He has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Drew University.
His poetry has been published in River
Styx, Art Times, Specs, Anima, Iota, Antiphon, and other literary magazines
and anthologies. He was the editor of Now
Culture, a journal of literature and arts, in addition to being the art editor
of The Shit Creek Review. In 2015,
his painting served as the cover of the Red
Wheelbarrow poetry anthology, in which he was also the featured poet. Don
and his wife, Colleen, live in Tranquility, New Jersey, with 2 dogs and 3 cats.
