Absinthe Minded Journal

The somewhat fetching title of Dave Steel’s book of poetry, Sequence of Nature past the Via Mala has a specific referencing, and a process of

*This manuscript was in the latter stages of translation from English to Italian with the great human being and translator, Amalia Bisutto Pascetta, who treated

The following poems are just the window opening, making that sudden jarring noise that startels you after a long silence. These are love poems and

(new absinthe writings 2010) September 12-27: 2010 What can be said about this new, another trip to Switzerland. They all start the same, cloaked in

Perfect Moment Soledurn “Das Regenbogen uber St. Ursen Kathedrele” This day after 20 years of waiting the perfect moment arrives in Solothurn. Over St. Ursen

SWISS TOILET POEMS, AND WHY MEN FAIL   On draining into the this porcelain commode from the 1860′s, my host told me it’s customary for

Spring Poems – 2009, 2010 Cherry Tree falls down Celery-Root Cellar Door If poems are just something, a test of time, then the one who

Sommascona If Sommascona really exists then people can live out through anything, remains on a bluff looking down at life. These are some cows with

Mai 2008 (and ‘07 poems) – Switzerland (Zurich, Solothurn, Gruyere, Ticino) *These poems, prose, were written with same voice of Absinthe Trinker (Absinthe Minded Journal), some writings were