Jeff Alessandrelli
“I wanna find myself by the sea/In anothers company”
Asking directions to places
he didn’t want to go,
the clouds overhead reminding him
that they have nothing to say
about the future or how the engine
actually works under the hood,
the musician─
dream thin and wizened─
farms sounds near a ripening
at the back of his head,
the lulled textures and schisms
sifting through to find a harvest
that without ever announcing itself
to the brazen necessities of the world
noiselessly disintegrates
into the wind─
Jeff Alessandrelli currently lives in Lincoln, NE; recent work appears in Denver Quarterly, Portland Review, Cream City Review, Shampoo and Hotel Amerika and is forthcoming in, among others, Sentence, Quarterly West, Western Humanities Review, Octopus and Laurel Review.