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Retrospective
by Michael Colonnese
Art: “Repression” by Edward Supranowicz
After the purloined precision
of his illustrious career,
a cultured ensemble
of phantom regrets,
an upscale rhetoric girded by grace,
and by the calculated symmetry
of a few truly exquisite lines,
typeset, reprinted, and autographed for fans...
After multiple awards
for his counterfeit passions
so collected, prized, and widely anthologized
that he sometimes can't recall
what was real and what wasn’t,
still intact is the fear
that his work will be forgotten
although he's planning to describe
with snake-eyed exactitude
that terrible foreboding.
Michael Colonnese is the author of Sex and Death, I Suppose, a hard-boiled detective novel with a soft Jungian underbelly, and of two prize-winning poetry collections, Temporary Agency and Double Feature. He lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains, near Hendersonville, North Carolina.