Fruit-laden branches begin to bend beneath bulbous figs early this summer, the taut, green pendulums blushing pink and purple, many bursting through their skin, over-ripe and bleeding from almond-shaped wasp wounds. The sweet and sickly scent a cloying perfume that transports me to a summer long ago, to Texas and the house on Huffman Hill: […]
Torre DeVito
Torre A. DeVito is a contemporary poet and the author of several books, including Landscape of My Childhood and This Tender Strength. He is a social media addict, news junkie, tech geek, nature and animal lover, poet, and Italian American blogger. Torre spent his childhood hiking through the mountains and woods around Cold Spring, New York. He raised a family in North Carolina with his wife of nearly forty years and now resides in Alabama.