Watts Towers
22 June 2006
Here where violence
spread like flaming oil
in the sixties,
where neat little houses
stand moated with crenelated
white grilled fences
and today ranchero music
wafts
in the summer air,
I come to see them
for the first time,
Rodia's immigrant monument
to Italy:
welded metal,
cemented tile shards,
Poet, Novelist, Literary Critic and Lecturer at
California State University, Long Beach in USA, Clifton Snider is the author of eight books of poetry, the last being The Alchemy of Opposites, three novels, including Wrestling with Angels: A Tale of Two Brothers, and a book of literary criticism, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made On: A Jungian Interpretation of Literature, as well as fiction, poetry, reviews, and articles in many international publications.