Ed Coletti is a poet, painter, and fiction writer. Recent work has appeared in North American Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Hawai'i Pacific Review, Spillway, Noir Nation, and So It Goes: Literary Journal
The October Italian sun
bursts like custard from our pastry.
Earringed Carlo from Bari engages us
with all the colors of Apulia
to the distant South.
We practice our Italian and English,
Carlo