“Stefan’s poetry is real, direct, and to the heart. A joy.”
—John Porcellino

“We were living in the tall house in Bielsko. Asia’s childhood home. Our bedroom was cozily up in the large attic space. Maya, who was four months old, woke up at midnight. I put down The Tombs of Atuan and began carrying her cuddled form back and forth along our habitual L-shaped route: straight along the length of the ironing board, then right-angle turn at the diamond-shaped window into the corner of the attic, then a practiced spin on the heel of my sock and back.

On one pass of the ironing board, before completing the base of the L, I stopped at the diamond window. The house’s red metal roof was complicated and creased like an origami rendering of the Alps. The diamond window overlooked a foreshortened spur of roof ridge extending out into space. At that moment, a marten appeared on the ridge. It did a diagonal dash and disappeared over the edge of the roof.

Maya slept through it all.” -Stefan Lorenzutti

Stefan is one of the founding members of Bored Wolves, a poetry micro press based in Poland.

Designed by Pilar Rojo, cover with Damian Nowak
Cover painting by Olive Findlay

Bored Wolves, 2021
Edition of 400

4.75” x 6/75” paperback
80 pages

A sample of poem from At Tremendous Dam:

The Keep

I am listening
in the space

between the car’s return
from the village grocery

and the approaching storm
of which we were warned.

Triangulated are my nose,
the plum tree, the cistern.

Gravel is laid
to be displaced.

On the deck
raindrops hit

a castle of chalk.