If Monday’s poem by Rhina Espaillat celebrated “the godmother of the New Formalism,” today’s selection in The Sun’s showcase of living poets demonstrates that rhyme and meter remain a poetic lingua franca for a new generation. Boston native Andrew Frisardi, who currently resides in Italy, is a poet, critic, and translator, whose works include a book of poems, “The Harvest and the Lamp,” an annotated translation of Dante’s “Convivio,” and a critical study, “Love’s Scribe: Reading Dante in the Book of Creation.” Today’s nine-line iambic-pentameter poem, with its braided rhymes, meditates with compressed potency on a fleeting instant of innocent family happiness.   

Family Snapshot 
by Andrew Frisardi