Table By Cell Window

Authors

  • Sal Cetrano Author

Keywords:

confinement, loss of faith, Catholicism, light, childhood memory, solitude

Abstract

A man in a stone cell arranges a few trivial possessions on the tin table beneath his window like objects on a childhood altar, then watches the light leave them as his faith once did.

Author Biography

  • Sal Cetrano

    Sal Cetrano is a poet and former history teacher in the high schools of New York City. Published in six countries, his work has appeared, among other places, in California Quarterly, Psychopoetica, Poetry Australia, The Galley Sail Review, Poetry New Zealand, Black Bear Review, Outposts Poetry Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review and Poetry Wales. A regular at Norman Mailer’s Gramercy boxing club in the 1980s, he takes pride in a twenty-seven-year correspondence with the author. Now happily retired, he clings to the Catholic belief that work is punishment for Original Sin.

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Published

2016-09-28

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2016): 10th Anniversary Issue

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Cetrano, Sal. “Table By Cell Window”. The Mailer Review, vol. 10, no. 1, Sept. 2016, pp. 518–519, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/598.