A
Boy’s Journey
I
watch him walk to the bus stop.
A
backpack a bit too large
for
his frame,
his
running shoes
exactly
like mine.
He
pauses frequently
easily
distracted.
A
bee on a flower, an odd-shaped rock,
a
cat sleeping in a lawn chair:
all
capable of pulling him off course.
The
school bus arrives, but a dirty tennis ball
at
the curb captures him.
I
call to him twice before he looks up.
I
point at the bus that has swallowed
the
last of the children in the line.
He
runs to the bus, drops the ball,
stops
to decide whether to retrieve it.
He
abandons the ball
and
climbs into the bus.
I
envy the boy’s imagination.
I
know reality will soon barge into his life.
But
for now, let him to enjoy his
imaginary
place.
That
place where there are no streets,
only
trails through mountains filled
with
grizzlies, tigers and desperadoes.
Bruno
Rescigna
My
writing credits include: short stories published in Elysian Fields Quarterly
and the Bucks County Writer, two one-act plays produced at the University of
New Mexico. My poetry has been published by Arial Chart, Literary Yard, the
annual issue of Tidewater. One of my poems was selected for reading at the 2023
Summertide Festival and will be displayed for 12 months on the grounds of the
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. In addition, I was interviewed on the “Strength
to Be Human” podcast hosted by Mark Rossi. Lastly, I was a finalist in 2021’s
Tucson Festival of Books, a national poetry competition.