Jersey Blues Selected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781980524953)

Like a pilgrim, or a spiritual vagrant, crisscrossing the country-always rolling on the very fabric of the continent: westwards and eastwards, to the eternal oceans, and from the northern vast plains down through the Appalachian, to the deep recesses of the lowlands, to the swamps-infallibly enough I would always return to my dwelling in Princeton. Many a time the lonely night was devoted to the contemplation of the moon of New Jersey, as I licked the wounds of a sore soul. I always wondered, how different that pale, ghostly circle of a moon was, from the one I encountered elsewhere above the magnificent land that I had been scampering about, and from the lost moon of my childhood. Yet, with adulthood-or maturity-seeing at last the rise and fall of earthling matters, I would flinch, my heart recoiling, as from something unpleasant. Thus, through the jaundiced, estranged buoy in the sky, I would recall past memories, and hold out my quivering hand to reach over to the always-receding mysteries of existence.

Author: Alessandro Baruffi
ISBN-10: 1980524955
ISBN-13: 9781980524953
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2018
Pages: 66
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.16d