comfort

John Schiano

    soft
stillness of night

    cold
nuzzles the window

    hands
cradle a steaming mug

    warmed
familiar fingers touch mine

    embraced
to avow all of my love for you

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John Schiano
A former New Yorker and a disabled veteran, John has won several awards for his poetry and visual art from the Poetic Genius Society, Shadow Poetry and Winsor & Newton. His hybrid work appeared in Ink in Thirds in 2024 and in 2025 he is "Featured Contributor" in their Vol. 6, i 1. All Poetry and Rising Phoenix Review published his work in 2024, three of his calligrams appear in different issues of #Ranger. The Seraphic Review and Four Tulips also published his poetry in 2025. He continues to experiment with poetry/visual poetry and hybrid art.