poetry

Painting of a woman and a young girl walking through a woodland meadow covered in anemone flowers
A Mile From Home
Painting of a plate of cookies next to a jar of honey
Daughters of Melisseus
Landscape painting of mountains in a gradient of colors ranging from green, red, to blue
Midsummer, As If
Painting of a tree trunk with various animals at the base including a snake and salamander
Inviolate
Impressionist painting of a flower market on a rainy winter day
Ode To Looking Into The Shadows On Market Day
Painting of a bouquest of dahlias, tiger lilies, and nasturtiums
At 48
Impressionist painting of a meadow at sunrise
Folds (Pliegues)
Painting of a red tomato and a green tomato
Relishing A Green Tomato
Impressionist painting of Eucalyptus trees
Elements: Los Angeles
Oil painting of a forest covered in snow
Winter Garden
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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
Ink drawing of bamboo
Leaves Of Bamboo
A Rage Of Ransoms
Two Women Seated By A Woodland Stream
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Oil painting of a sky full of clouds
And For A Moment