Dragon

By Joan Cofrancesco

These are short poems about love, cats, art, zen, nature, Rimbaud, and simplicity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781546213932

Joan Cofrancesco

The author has published twenty books of poetry. She loves to hike in the Adirondacks and live in upstate New York. She had published books in Amazon Quarterly, the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Kalliope, Sinister Wisdom, the Healing Muse, 13th Moon, and other literary journals. She loves to hike, travel, visit museums, and read and write poetry.

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Published by AuthorHouse  10/19/2017

ISBN: 978-1-5462-1394-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-1393-2 (e)

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Contents

buddhist or catholic

images

at the syracuse state

watching

the poet’s lament

messier 84 and 96 in

country store 1961

dead carp

synchronicity

chain letter

cold dogs in the courtyard

hungry ghost

harley-davidson panhead

inspiration

abandonment

waking up in syracuse

beatnik

quake shake

witch of words

gift

grandpa

hiking blue

confederate cat from big sur

blues haiku

solitary ritual

night ocean

rimbaud

beasts

on the anniversary

my life is a fantasy

january in upstate, new york

sinister

magic

hiking through the erie

no more instant, self-sealed

attachment

provincetown cats

talking dirty

ninety miles from cuba

poem spoken from a lonely throat

x-mas eve

companions in hell

the cosmos of the poet

toto I don’t think we’re in

sitting at faegan’s

after the storm

desire

harmony

hermit of the major arcadia

reading brautigan in the tub

gold, red…

meditations under the half-

L.L. bean night in syracuse

mexico

sufi haiku

cool cat

white goddess

white out in syracuse

august afternoon

haiku

calligraphy

hermitage

attachments

still life with cats

warm still life

cape cod

gold’s gym

reading care of the soul by thomas moore

i always feel like a starving coyote

once it cools down

in heat

chariot of apollo

porcelain dreams

the inner life

amerikan woman

i want

late sunday afternoon

stray cat

on a visiting angel

the break-up

loving you is like chasing a herd of elephants

biography: fighting demons

you understand

what else could i do

hungry ghost

every poet needs a cat

tibet

death the night and the devil

"i’m about to be

passion

loners

transmigration of souls

pocket watch

mediterranean cat

eating dinner

owasco lake

the death