Two Poems
Joseph Salvatore Aversano
SEARCHING FOR KANSAS
Can cold
wind damage
a guitar?
Can dust?
How do you
fingerpick chords?
How do you
fingerpick wind?
Is dust in
the wind standard
tuning?
Is dust
in the wind
a beginner’s song?
And did anyone sing
for Kansas?
What is
the poem dust
in the wind about?
What inspired dust . . .
INTANGIBLE AND TANGIBLE ELEMENTS AS FOUND
IN ERIK AGARD’S NEW YORKER CROSSWORD
OF MARCH 6, 2023 *
ACROSS
Deli orders in bowls
Ballet-inspired workout
DOWN
Switch
to
a
hands-
off
app-
roach
Dance
from
Central
Europe
* Agard, Erik. The Crossword: A moderately challenging puzzle. The New Yorker, March 6, 2023, p. 82.
Joseph Salvatore Aversano is a native New Yorker living on the Central Anatolian Steppe. He is the founding curator of Half Day Moon Press and editor of Half Day Moon Journal. Recently, his haibun poem, “The Gone Missing,” was adapted by five cinepoetry directors from around the globe and screened at the Haibun Film Festival in Cincinnati in June 2023.