Awareness

by John Di Leonardo

        
Exhilarated despair
of morning and evening


on this mysterious river
silent, sluggish, swirling


through brooks to falls
self absorbed –

extinguished moon
a secret no one can name

inexhaustible.

Bio

John Di Leonardo’s first chapbook Book of Hours was published in 2014. His poems have won numerous awards in various poetry anthologies. He is a Director with The Station Art Gallery in Whitby, President of the Brooklin Poetry Society, and Editor of Verse Afire, The Ontario Poetry Society Publication. John is currently working on a manuscript of Ekphrastic poems. He writes and paints in Brooklin, Ontario.