Two Poems

Anthony Carelli May 23, 2011 - 10:38am

Faith


The Italian way with the knife is done.

But what about this sleeveless, rickety LP

at the bottom of my father’s dusty stacks?

—Alessandro Moreschi, The Last Castrato,

The Complete Vatican Recordings.

What takes me at this tender age of twenty-eight,

what spirits me and drags me to the attic,

unearths the turntable, restarts the record,

what dials down the volume knob to 1?...

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About the Author

Anthony Carelli lives in Brooklyn, New York. “Faith” and “No, Euripides” are from Carnations, his first collection of poems, just published by Princeton University Press.