http://www.tdevito.com/ The official Web site of the poet Torre DeVito en-us http://images/logo.gif http://www.tdevito.com 150 20 http://www.tdevito.com/poetry/between.php Torre DeVito wittily compares poetic inexperience to virginity in this love poem. http://www.tdevito.com/poetry/breaking.php A simple poem with a central metaphor and nature as the main source of imagery that is so typicall of Torre DeVito's work http://www.tdevito.com/poetry/commuting.php The central metaphor, a commuter's train ride is used to describe the other form of commuting, meaning to transform. The rhyme scheme and meter are quite unique. http://http://www.tdevito.com/poetry/south.php An unusual poem for Torre DeVito, A Long Way South of Now is a powerful and nostalgic image of the American South as a place with a less than admirable past shrouded in affectations of lost glory. DeVito's use of many poetic divices, such as alliteration and internal rhyme are skillfully and masterfully wrought. http://www.tdevito.com/poetry/squamlake.php An autobiographical poem by Torre DeVito about a family vacation. One of the few examples of DeVito's poetry that uses no specific meter and employs internal rhyme only. http://www.tdevito.com/poetry/strong.php Simple, eloquent, beautiful, this poem by Torre DeVito says volumes with an economy of words http://www.tdevito.com/poetry/drawing.php A lesson in living is couched in DeVito's poem about a drawing lesson. http://www.tdevito.com/poetry/cosmology.php It helps to have a physics degree to understand this poem by Torre DeVito which peeks behind the fabric of the universe http://www.tdevito.com/poetry/aching.php Erotic, but tasteful, this is one of Torre DeVito's best loved poems. http://www.tdevito.com/poetry/gliding.php From the early poetry of Torre DeVito, this short four stanza poem uses the imagery of a car ride through the fog to convey a sense of being disconected and isolated.