Preview of Long Road of Hope by Joe Zoccoli
Introducing Long Road of Hope, poetry by Joe Zoccoli. This will be JoSara MeDia’s first book (and eBook) of poetry; Joe’s voice is not only new, it represents the many experiences already endured by this young man. We know you will enjoy this forthcoming work and the preview below:
I Insist I am not Dead
My best efforts to exceed
the frame of my flesh
have led only to
renewed efforts.
Daily, God’s slow heavy hand swings closer
to brush me off his arm like a stinging fly,
and I am called, in humility, to be thankful
he doesn’t choose to crush me instead.
We are living well here, in spite of everything.
For as long as we can we will try to live forever.
Land Again
Coming down quickly
we all experience descent disorientation,
fighting to keep our feet firmly beneath us
as we explode to land again.
We will limp uncertainly for weeks,
wasting little time to re-immerse ourselves
in conversations we left behind when we first
turned expectant eyes toward flight.
How long is it we’ve known each other now?
The years coil around us so that when
god splits open our souls he can gauge our age,
reading striations like the rings in older trees;
we have to be laid bare for judgment.
I expect that we will linger
for long days in the sun,
bolted upright to rocks to provide
sustenance for eagles.
They will carry our names back to their children,
and when they unhinge great golden beaks
our memory will rain out into eager mouths
so that they might carry us in flight again
to all the lightless desolate regions of the earth.
© 2010 by Joe Zoccoli
