Joseph Dorazio – Perspective on the Past (with "Oil Squirt Cans with Auger Bit" by Daniel Monda)


























It is in the workshop of the mind
that things are made. The
mind, itself, an antiquaire,
collects each and every bit
of universe: all light, and ancient air,

the leady lead, the primitive tin,
and builds with them a foyer
of some impenetrable mansion
from which we stare and ponder life’s patina.
From which we gauge great age.

Immeasurable as the past may seem,
it is the mind that deceives itself
—is aggrieved to discover that
all the while, we aren’t looking outside
but in.






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Joseph Dorazio is a prize-winning poet whose poems have appeared widely in print and online. His newest collection of poems, Remains to Be Seen, was a finalist in Bright Hill Press's chapbook competition and will soon be available for eReader. His poems have been set to music, and he has poems forthcoming in Philadelphia Poets, Lalitamba, and The Kerf. He lives and writes in Wayne, PA.