Fire Star
1527 Comet Gouache watercolor Anonymous How brazenly you shimmer Reclining beneath A humpbacked moon Smoldering red Scintillating Against crushed velvet You scorch the air around you With crimson flames And glowing embers Your star fire Has engulfed us In its fury Blistering the ebony night With each flash Of a luminous face The visage I now gaze Tenderly upon After the tumult While the heat dissipates Leaving silver moon drops Upon celestial bodies LiNdA ...
Read MoreA Poetic Dollar
A Gift from Alejandro In a volume of endless pages The poetry of a life well-imagined With cries of despair tinged with joy A never-ending kaleidoscope Which we view from a common thread This amaranthine floss connects our souls Reaching into the past and toward the future The present enjoined in the softest mesh Upon which we lay with legs entwined In a gossamer filament of purest light The rays of the Sun are behind the Moon Only silver shines in the darkest hour And the clouds hide the brilliance of gold Though its beauty does not wane For lack of spiritual eminence These morsels of radiant ingots Gleaming high above our darkened canopy Studded as starry currants in a baked bread From which we will eat our fill To sustain our love without end...
Read MoreHonoring the Dead
“El Jarabe en Ultratumba” Zinc etching José Guadalupe Posada, 1910 From the tomb they come Dancing a joyous jarabe Calcanei and phalanges Upon a glaze of Tyrian purple Chattering calaveras Mimicking the buried language A burst of ancient song Between bouts of clacking teeth A living waltz free of the grave On this deepest night of souls It is our zapateado cepillado With flesh-covered bones For we are the dead In the afterlife of yearning And having reached the rapture We await the mystery of rebirth LiNdA...
Read MoreИз России с любовью
Vintage Russian postcard (From Russia with Love) In the blue light of a moving train The Summer Triangle shimmers aloft Glistening Vega whispers to Lyra The secrets of an impassioned tryst The images inside her trembling eyelids The flash of gold against Midnight’s cobalt The warmth of darkened dreaming Enveloped within amethyst folds The traveled steps upon distant stars The glimmering path to an open doorway Through which you enter silently brushing Dust motes fallen from an ancient edifice Specks of ash from the burning pyre Drifting across the multiverse The one we inhabit undisturbed No such fire shall consume it For we belong to starlit night In the burnished sun we do not dwell We have escaped the moving train With prolific love expanding LiNdA...
Read MoreMoon, Mars and Meteors
6 x 9 Watercolor Joshua Tree, CA A midnight sky of clouded scales Lightning bolts from a salmon stream Emerging from these golden eddies The gleaming vessels of Moon and Mars The silhouettes of secretive trees Propped against a sleeping mountain Awareness of our whispered breaths Consummates a desert yearning We are blue auras within the sheltered valley The fragmented skeletons of honored dead This holy place submerged in a chromosphere A bier illuminated by a persimmon lantern Grains of sand adrift impacted earth Our feet alight on a granular pillow The quiescent flora of an arid dream Yields the fragrance of wind-driven days So does the Meteor kiss the face of Nyx Above the deepest recesses of shadowed stone We are thus revealed from our hiding hollow And our trembling mouths drink the moonbeams...
Read MoreCosmos Echoes
4 x 6 watercolor A pale shimmer Beyond her darkened face A fragranced effusion Along a vaulted trajectory So far and away At last receiving Our hypnotic whispers The doomed star In a black hole’s grasp The fading light And flickering dust Burning out Her death cry A wrenching echo LiNdA
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