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Tony Taccone is a stage director.  

He is also a sometime poet, playwright, and humorist.

WELCOME 

 

Thanks for stopping by.   I created this site so people could have access to some of the the other things I've been writing. Of course, that implies that people are interested in what I'm writing, which is an act of sheer optimism if not blind arrogance on my part.  But now that you're here, feel free read some samples...   If you feel that reading the material online isn't sufficient, you can purchase a hard copy of the poems or plays or stories.  Hey, it's cheap!     Feel free to contact me if you'd like to offer any feedback or share  anything you've written...   Yours in creative solidarity....Tony

Long Island Fisherman

 

THE TIME OF OUR LIVES

 

this, then, is what

we are given.

 

ten or twenty thousand days

wherein we watch

a billion leaves

born then blush,

fall,

turn to earth, to silt,

to ash so soft

it will not bear a name.

 

from this black dust

we make our things:  clothes,

shelter, jewelry,

fiction-

 

stories in which

we seek conclusion,

our highest

and most dangerous invention.

 

for this culling of days,

this harvest of dust

gathers meaning only

by our watching, our being,

 

our sensation of

what is forever being given-

that our bodies

are really only leaves seeking light,

 

loved at last

by the wind.

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