During Vision – a poem by Peter Dellolio

                        During Vision

			The yellow taxi passes
			slowly.  Its glowing bulk
			suggests an imaginary connection between
			the burning head of
			the passenger’s cigarette and that array of enormous
			ships.  So many still, large vessels
			sleepily secured to the harbor by
			muscular, myriad shadows.  These
			dense layers of darkness
			cannot halt the stream of
			bright circular lights suspended along the
			thoroughfare.  They can be glimpsed, fleetingly,
			through the taxi window.  This observation
			occurs in spite of the fact that the
			quiet, frozen heaviness of the ships, is
			so unlike the threadbare fragility of
			the nearly floating
			vehicle.

			The taxi increases its speed and
			he looks through the window for a
			second time.

Peter Dellolio was born in 1956 in New York City.  Poetry, fiction, short plays, art work, and critical essays published in numerous literary magazines and journals. Poetry collections A Box Of Crazy Toys published 2018 by Xenos Books/Chelsea Editions; Bloodstream Is An Illusion Of Rubies Counting Fireplaces published February 2023 and Roller Coasters Made Of Dream Space published November 2023 by Cyberwit/Rochak Publishing.