Frank C. Modica
Frank C. Modica is a retired teacher who taught children with special needs for over 34 years. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Brussels Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, Macrame Literary Journal, and Unbroken. Frank’s first chapbook, “What We Harvest,” nominated for an Eric Hoffer book award, was published in 2021 by Kelsay Books. His second chapbook, “Old Friends,” was published in 2022, by Cyberwit Press.
Regrets
I waited years for my arms
and legs to stretch,
my muscles and sinews to bulk up
because I want to imitate
the tall, gangly athletes
who effortlessly dunked basketballs,
who lofted baseballs
over ball-field fences,
who hand-palmed doorways
as they loomed over me.
Only my poems grew;
the words and stanzas
sprouting like wildly
promiscuous weeds
from the pages
of my notebooks.
I’d like to say
it was enough,
but I’d be
lying.
