Poetry

Forty-five poems written between 1992 and 2015, arranged by era. Part I · The High School Era (1992–1996) “SANCTUARY” AND “ELEMENTARY SCHOOL” MEDLEY I remember a place, a fine place gone. Away from it all, lost in time. Safe, warm, and happy den, How I wish I was back there then. I remember a time, the happiest days of my life. When all was right, and the sun was bright. Precious, free, and ambitious youth— “Under your pillow with that tooth!” ...

**by Anthony Seliquini This booklet gathers six poems from the years immediately after I returned from the U.S. Army and began trying to understand the man I’d become. They are not arranged as a diary, exactly, but as a sequence of afterimages: love remembered, hope renewed, vision distorted, power judged, and the self forced to ask what part it had played in its own unfolding. I was still 21 years old when I arrived in Des Moines, Iowa. ...