Poetry

pillowcase [sand] ballet
Painting of a room with a door leading to a balcony. A woman lays on a chaise lounge while a second woman sits behind her upright.
Interrupta: Two
Painting of a room at night illuminated by the moon through the window
Night Visitor
Painting of a bridge at night, beneath the bridge is a boat where a figure shrouded in white stands upright
Plymouth Ghosts
Painting of a cabin on a small hill near a body of water
night/cabin/lakeside
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Predators are everywhere and the Moon is their ally
Finding Joy
Of Ink
Lucid
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Translated into English by Alan Bern. "L'infinto" by Giacomo Leopardi. In public domain. Infinitudes Teno's thought Leopard's hill A thick child's finger measures the endless lines between the hatches on the wood rule, dizzy from counting in another language. Later, shorn sheep jumped the trimmed hedge, landing back, lambs again, pranced off on a measured rack toward a deeply colored sun, rising or falling, dark enclosing the child like a lid. The Infinite Always dear to me this solitary hill and this thicket that screens out much of the view of the farthest horizon. But sitting and gazing out, I frame in my mind endless spaces beyond and silences that surpass anything human, and a deep stillness; there for a single beat the heart is not afraid And as the wind comes murmuring among these plants, I begin to compare that infinite silence to this voice: and recollect eternity and the dead seasons past and the present one alive before me. and her sound. So in this immensity my thinking goes under and sinks and this ship going down is sweet to me in this sca.
L’infinito
painting of a nude woman seated with an arm outstretched. an elderly woman in pink robes reaches out to touch her finger
Heaven Loves Black
Autumn in the province. Teatime me
Tea With An Old Friend
Painting of a snowy mountain range
Prayer Flags
Age Holds Wisdom
A man and woman in a white rowboat on a lake
Paris In Seasons