Salvatore Buttaci : Writing

BIO OF AN ALPHA CENTAURIAN

BIO OF AN ALPHA CENTAURIAN

A Story by Salvatore Buttaci


At the expense of being hauled away to a home for the criminally you-know-what, I’ll tell you a little of my life. Needless to preface it with..
IF GOD AND I CHANGED PLACES

IF GOD AND I CHANGED PLACES

A Poem by Salvatore Buttaci


I know it could never happen But it’s a game I like to play, Pretending I could tap in To God’s power for a day. If God and I chan..
Cameo:  PUPPY

Cameo: PUPPY

A Poem by Salvatore Buttaci


Monday Papa brought home a puppy Making it clear it was the job Of us kids to feed it and take it for walks. We did not. Papa gave it Away. ..
Haiku:  WASHBOARD

Haiku: WASHBOARD

A Poem by Salvatore Buttaci


sparrows are sliding on Mama’s backyard washboard hear summertime tweets #
There Was No Basket I Remember

There Was No Basket I Remember

A Story by Salvatore Buttaci


Once you’ve been turned on to the taste of human meat, it’s next to impossible to go back to that tough old drabness of animal beef a..
CHEROKEE MAGIC

CHEROKEE MAGIC

A Story by Salvatore Buttaci


Up and down the White River Valley you can ask settlers even today if this tale be true. If the ancestors who handed them down the story hadn&rsquo..
YOU LIFTED YOURSELF   [In Memory of My Friend Ed Craft: 10/06/09]

YOU LIFTED YOURSELF [In Memory of My Friend Ed C..

A Poem by Salvatore Buttaci


When you glided from this world, dear Ed, you lifted yourself from tenuous human machinery that creaked and tugged along the high wires, w..
GOD IS COLOR-BLIND

GOD IS COLOR-BLIND

A Poem by Salvatore Buttaci


When He took clay in hand To form what would be man, He did not care the color of the sod To fashion man in the image of God. And when He sent H..
IN HOBART'S CAFE'

IN HOBART\'S CAFE\'

A Poem by Salvatore Buttaci


He takes the hot cup and pretends his hand is still, wills his heart to beat in whispers, the way it could when he was young and new to love. ..
SPICE MINES

SPICE MINES

A Story by Salvatore Buttaci


I met her on the last day of my trip to Mars. As the one in charge at the firm I worked for, I sought new sites that might hold spice mines, thos..