Poetry by Michael Carrino
Time can be a gentle quiz a dissonant tin drum
Songbirds are silent
It continues to rain Every village road is now
a branch of the river
The past is a vintage red wine
in some dark cellar
The future might only be
black grapes
wasting on a vine as another
ash-stained cloud
creates an illusion Beyond
the slate gray lake
every mountain must be burning
Michael Carrino was co-founder and poetry editor of SUNY Plattsburgh’s literary journal, Saranac Review. He has had nine books of poetry published, most recently, In No Hurry (Kelsay Books, 2021) and Natural Light (Kelsay Books, 2023), as well as individual poems in numerous journals and reviews.
