Subjective Substance - December 2003

	Online Journal of Poetry Volume 1 Issue 9 December 2003

Rooftop Ledges
by Jason Visconti

It is a pleasure sometimes looking down.
To peer into the gardens of somewhere else...
That backyard place of someplace else...
As a rule it happens without much thought.
What is down there comes from what is higher up.
Enchanted with this memory we bend.
We fix our eyes from a normal height
To the miracle I spoke to without any fright
For the heavens have kept these bushes in line.
Of course we will lean from the ledges all the time.

Jason enjoys creating unique imagery in his work. He has studied in a Poetry Workshop with Denver Butson in New York City. He has been previously published in Virtual Writer, Poetheart, and Now and Forever. "I think poetry should create a feeling in the reader, not necessarily something intellectual. The sounds, images conveyed in a poem should allow the meaning of the poem to come through. There are even times when just the sounds and images are enough to leave the reader with a 'feeling,' not necessarily a meaning."

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