Dominic Riccitello
Words by Dominic Riccitello | Writer & Modern Poet

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Jul 11, 2014
attention to sorrow poem image

attention to sorrow

i reflect, i confess – recently i’ve used people as objects only because his name has become etched in my chest and i’m looking for emotional release, maybe some ease a chance to give back my keys on this lease ‘cause t…
Jul 10, 2014
oblivion poem image

oblivion

floating the mediterranean, i dream into oblivion i’ll call you baby and you’ll call me salvation hovering heaven and the hidden venom your presence is the essence of the great depression you kill with eyes and your cri…
Jul 9, 2014
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asleep

there’s something lovely about the way three am calls your name how my therapist knows your game and all those words you played but i sway, i speak your name — i don’t know afraid lean back and relax as i bask in the th…
Jul 8, 2014
the pizza that never happened poem image

the pizza that never happened

fingers against my lips, your touch and chills don’t speak — i feel words beginning to slip i’m not glib, i’m not something you can hit and quit but for some reason i still write to the tune of you they say some poems a…
Jul 7, 2014
i know who killed me poem image

i know who killed me

hiding from the light, my body curves with the dark lips against the ground, i haven’t had enough the rush of it all, make it rough touch my face, lick my eyes, give me your thoughts i want everything you got looking fr…
Jul 6, 2014
a beautiful problem poem image

a beautiful problem

i realize my problem— a hum in the background my attention becomes lost as i try to clear the frost the cause, i’m just so full of exhaust once upon a time i asked god but soon realized he was a fraud i bawled, crawled …
Jul 6, 2014
Great blog! What is your mindset for writing? Are you more free verse? Who are your influences? poem image

Great blog! What is your mindset for writing? Are you more free verse? Who are your influences?

thank you – i write about people, motions and emotions. not really free verse, i like the feeling of being able to rhyme my lines and/or play off each line. i actually can’t name a single poet – don’t have any influence…
Jul 5, 2014
questioning myself poem image

questioning myself

words crumble — i don’t know what to say i love and i lust, but i promise it was— every aspect: your handles, the way your body curved life is abstract with occasional magic things happen, we run with or from madness pl…
Jul 4, 2014
a loyal hand, but no job poem image

a loyal hand, but no job

somewhere in peru the clouds cover our view forever and always you he offered a hundred and fifty grand, but i gave him the hand— just us two and a romp through the swamp we never knew the word “stop” always on a single…
Jul 3, 2014
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july 3, 2014

shutting the cupboard, i realize the day july third, you know i’ll never forget i wish i remembered the restaurant like i remember your face like every sentence said and every current through my head a time of glory and…