ditch,

Davide Trame is an Italian teacher of English, born and living in Venice, Italy. His poems have been published extensively in literary magazines in the U.K, U.S. and elsewhere. His poetry collection, “Re-Emerging”, was published as an on-line book by Gatto Publishing in 2006.

After our room, our ship

After our room, our ship crossed
in the night the sea of our plain
and our dogs gently snored with us
with the ditch's prints in their minds' cheeks,
after the rainy dawn came and the ditches
chattered in their stretches of twanging stains,
after the clouds that like swelling tiger’s eyes
stared at us with their skin knuckled with light,
we find ourselves in the tall grass of the slippery path,
on stones like half-buried tongues, stones
and brambles and green, the bright spikes
of things, the bright arms of the rain,
the shiny stark light’s reins in our gaze,
not quite drenched yet in these waves

let us be tossed.