| Two Poems by Janet Butler | ||
The Villa The ancient palm thick with time and dignity patterns the weathered paleness with shifting lace that falls, obliquely, through windows blankly observing disintegration and ruin. The lightest of breezes animates tangled shadows but the villa remains impervious, her fragile ghosts slipping back to dusty portraits as footsteps approach to stop, unexpectedly, at the silent click of invisible doors, closing Depths Green waters lap the sands, and moist shadows fringe a pale beach. Crystalline depths fall to netherworlds uncharted, forbidden Edens that tempts offering, again, the fruit, fluctuating embraces that pull a careless diver downward to countries without return.
Janet Butler A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Janet Butler has been living in Italy since 1984 as a TOEFL instructor, translator, and watercolor painter. From 1997 to 2003 she translated the poems of an Italian poet, Dr. Romeo Giuli. In 2000 a selection was published in two books by the Solveig Publishing House, Sienna, Italy, under the titles Terre senesi and La Passione di Gesł. After completing this collaboration last year, she decided to dedicate herself to her own creative writing. She has had poetry accepted for publication in Scrivener’s Pen, the FrontStreet Review and two VoicesNet Anthologies, Ken*again, which also published four of her watercolors, Pedestal Magazine: The Political Anthology, Tilt (UK) and Underground Window. |