1 Poem by M. J. Iuppa

Something, which is

I am not like the sycamore, willing
to disrobe in the dead of winter.
My mottled skin shields me from
the streetlight’s dreary buzz.
I am out of practice, like
the sky’s inability to shake snow
from its sleeves; yet, my footsteps
disappear in thin air—
I am set loose upon the world.
To go the right way would take
advantage of happiness. And why not?
This quirky thought, without design.
M.J.Iuppa


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 M.J. Iuppa   lives on Red Rooster Farm near the shores of Lake Ontario. Most recent poems, lyric essays and fictions have appeared in the following journals: Poppy Road Review, Black Poppy Review, Digging to the Roots, 2015 Calendar, Ealain, Poetry Pacific Review, Grey Sparrow Press: Snow Jewel Anthology, 100 Word Story, Avocet, Eunoia Review, Festival Writer, Silver Birch Press: Where I Live Anthology, Turtle Island Quarterly, Wild Quarterly, Boyne Berries Magazine (Ireland), The Lake, (U.K.), Punchnel’s, Camroc Review, Tar River Poetry, Corvus Review, Clementine Poetry, Postcard Poetry & Prose, and Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction, edited by Judith Kitchen and Dinah Lenney(Norton), among others.  She is the Director of the Visual and Performing Arts Minor Program at St. John Fisher College.