Painted Ponies

for Higashiyama Kaii

ghost horse
bird-foot prints
your journey

Strange Love

foolish Rodolfo!

jealousy emptied

your hour glass

Her Poem: "Who are My People?"

For Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni

her words of discovery
catch in my throat
pool in my eyes
explode in my heart
her people...
are my people, too

Manet's Peonies

"Branch of White Peonies with Pruning Shears" :  Edouard Manet

resting like lovers

facing one another

before the bloom fades

Life Still

tempting apples
Cézanne's
sensual torture
waiting to fall
off the edge
of canvassed silence
no scent
no fullness for the palm

Inspiration: Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies: Claude Monet, 1899

I weep with the willow
neither of us able
to cross
the bridge between