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Sicilian Culture: The People

Desi Di Nardo

Desi Di Nardo is a poet and author in Toronto whose work has been published in numerous North American and international journals. Her poetry has been performed at the National Arts Centre, featured in Poetry on the Way on Toronto’s transit system, selected by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate, and displayed in the Official Residences of Canada. Desi's poems have also been presented and studied in schools across the country, translated into several languages, and printed on Starbucks cups. Her new book is titled The Plural of Some Things. For more information on Desi, please visit www.desidinardo.com.

Lady Luck in the Corner

Capitalizing on the deep inky night
When the train inches like a symbiotic caterpillar
And there is no way to be sure who is watching as I sleep
Detection exists just below these tremulous lashes
Clutched under my chin like a prayer
My book of countenance
Skirting the coast of our Normandy bloodlines
Their long white veins grasping from an endless channel
To suck me in and under
I will be remembered
Not as a member of this heritage
When I am without it
Without the tome
I walk dark and marked
Marbled and mottled and
Dampened by the pain of the rain
Inveigled like the Queen of Spades
I’ll walk off the plank
Resembling so much Joan of England

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