Ed Coletti

FLOATING

bruised & supine                 aboard a skiff with no oars

tearfully unafraid                 or just barely afraid

stars emerging                      provide some direction

bumping                              occasionally              

into riverwood                     reminding me                       

I have a body                       drifting hurting 

among                                 emerging stars                      

pointing the way   or at least providing this place

this vague guide                   this astrology

where I am                           where I seem

to be heading                       through a soundless night

Ed Coletti is a poet, painter, fiction writer and middling chess player. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and holds Masters Degrees in Creative Writing and Business Management from San Francisco State University (with Robert Creeley) and Sonoma State Universities respectively. Previously, he served briefly as an Army Officer, then as a Counselor and later as a Small Business Consultant. Recent poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, North American Review, Volt, Spillway, Modern Poetry Quarterly Review and So It Goes The Literary Journal of The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Museum. A fairly new poetry collection was titled The Problem With Breathing (Edwin Smith Publishing, 2015). His book Apollo Blue’s Harp and The Gods Of Song was more recently published by McCaa Books February 2019.