free verse

painting of a small white bird in a gilded cage which is placed on a desk
Why Caged Birds Sing
painting of a field of daffodils at sunset
flowers where they fall
photograph of a scattered selection of vintage baseball cards
Time Capsules
surreal painting depicting the evolution of humanity depicted through the human form
Let There Be Light
painting of a cloudy night with a bright moon
Amen & Everything Holy Dies At Your Feet
Painting of a pearl oyster with two female figures reclined at the base
To the One By the Water
Abstract watercolor painting in shades of blue
TO THE WEIGHT OF SALT: TRANSFIGURATION
watercolor painting of a person laying in bed in a sparse room
Night, in the Chaplain’s On-Call Room
painting of the goddess eos on a cloud, holding a staff in her left hand
lover song burns in eos’ mouth
Painting of a woman with long auburn hair sitting on a rock by the sea, the waves are crashing and a shipwreck can be seen in the distance
catastrophe on the shore
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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