Brian Ciochetto

CONTACT:
Email: bciochetto@yahoo.com
Primary Webpage: https://writing.com/main/portfolio/view/ripglaedr3
Twitter: https://twitter.com/glaedrfly

BIO:
Brian Ciochetto is a semi-retired writer and former journalist who writes poetry and antithetical jottings in blogs and other social media forums. Inspired by nature, current events and childhood, his writing is slowly actualizing, defiantly growing with a blend of experimented writing styles uniquely formed. Alias is Brian Keith Compton.

PUBLICATIONS:
Such Longing: Poetry of Nature & Love (2014), available on Amazon.

Poetry

matchstick

i laid nimbly, nestled in bed
with my kin
before you struck, strike again --
then, aim my head
at the tinder, lambs like me
before factory.
my sulfur inhales intoxicating oxygen.
hair aflame descends
on their neat village like mine,
see them
nestled with brethren, interconnected,
and I dread.
one matchstick employed against
their sacrifice.
I join them.

Real Men Wear Masks (not fear)

They stack their apathy like corpses at Auschwitz
to burn and/or bulldoze in the ground --
bare faced men standing six feet apart
like apparitions, eye me from a safe distance

at Fleet Farm.

I may be asymptomatic; you're the fearful,
as the division stands among the flannel-clad
who won't touch hand sanitizer at check out,
but reach for gas cans in the back of pickups

to vigorously rub.