Sun Sparks
the
Day: Poems of Sicily
Includes the best of
Sal Buttaci’s Sicilian-themed poems:
Spend a morning in Acquaviva
Platani, the village of his parents where you’ll meet the men in the
piazza like Turiddu and the barber Vanuzzu and Padre Giambetta the
village priest.
Visit with a mother whose only
son has died in the war and all she has to treasure are a last
photograph and his final letter.
Eavesdrop on a parting scene
at a railroad station: Vincinzu is leaving his village for the
l’America and Giovanni Quaranta is going there too and
will eventually strike it rich.
Smell the bougainvillea
blooming on the side of Dr. Milano’s house.
Walk with a Sicilian couple
across the Rialto Bridge in the romantic city of Venice where hearts
dance and hearts break.
Meet once more the foolish
Icarus who almost landed in Sicily but died in flight.
Ask the young Sicilian woman
who yearns to live in the big city of Rome how she will
remember the little town she left behind.
Here
are poems to read
and
re-read over and over again
