John Martino
In Light of All the Darkness
“Jesus,
I could have
killed someone!”
cries the enlightened
bullet, suddenly
going vertical
and putting on
the brakes,
shrieking to
a halt, lifting
its metal
visor like
a sweating welder,
a startled
knight.
John Martino‘s poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, HEArt Online, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, and the anthology Envy, Vol. 6 from a 7-volume series on the 7 deadly sins by Pure Slush Books. He has worked as a teacher and tutor of English for 22 years. An avid traveler, Martino currently resides in Hong Kong with his wife, Shelley.
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