without bang


"i am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together"
-john lennon



rather it was almost peaceful
a quiet soothing
an oozing of languid arousal

don't you remember
you were there
all morning breath lethargic
we were fleeting orbits of one another
somewhat cheek rich rouge
somewhat pure negligee light

we were billion billions more than today
after melting the threshold and arriving
inwards dripping away
like a spinning poker card
never a disorientating side

we were never so close
yet room perpetually provided
dictated by physics
defining a lucid hour

don't you remember
it was like first tasting our words
all waterbreathfire
a mere glimpse away from lost discovery
a spiraling particle of long events
we were thieves in a dark quarter eying
a slim crack of inaccessible light
all silence in the shell

we were all eggmen

now
everybody
hit the ground

dan sicoli with joe malvestuto:
dan sicoli on guitar.
joe malvestuto plays keyboards.
Letter for Tia.mp3

available through
Dan Sicoli
Box 2071
Niagara Falls, NY 14301
$10.00 including postage

Slipstream reviews with
michael baskinski:

• Number 20. 2000
• Number 21. 2001
• Number 22. 2002

Dan Sicoli writes about hope and the fallout that comes from offering it up.  Dan Sicoli (Niagara Falls, NY) is a co-editor with Slipstream Magazine and press. Pudding House Publications recently released his chapbook, the allegories. Another chapbook, Pagan Supper (Pudding House Publications), was released in 2002. Other poems have appeared in Concrete Wolf, the Whirligig, Re)verb, Barbaric Yawp, Maelstrom, Rockzilla.net, Tokens: Contemporary Poetry for the Subway, and numerous litmags anthologies. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, he performs his work regularly, often in collaboration with other writers.

other online publications:

• ROCKZILLA • OPIUM • ATOMIC PETALS
• PESHEKEE • 2RIVER VIEW(1) • 2RIVER VIEW (2)

Slipstream #25 is now available
  100 pages - 2005 - $7.00