IMMIGRANT
New York
Times Square
A city street
A woman holds her breath
But life pushes her ahead where
The roads are endless and
Faces blur in a flash of traffic lights
She moves on red
Horns blare, mouths scream
She smiles knowingly
UNREQUJITED LOVE
January’s frost white face
A frigid grin
Not unlike
A shunned lover’s embrace
FORGOTTEN
We always end up here
Floundering in the overgrown weeds
Below the Ferris wheel
JOSEPH M. FARIA—first book of short stories FROM A DISTANCE was published in June 1998. He has also published a collection of poems THE WAY HOME, and a children’s book THE POLAR BEAR WITH WISKERS. His poems or stories have appeared in NEO, The Rhode Islander, Snowmonkey, Temenos, Riven, Zoetrope All:Story Extra, and a Glimmer Train Finalist for 2001 and 2004. He has another collection of stories to be published in October of 2014.
He lives in Cranston, RI with his wife Sandra, and their dog “Josie”.
–Art by Simona Capriana