Edward Steichen,
Gloria Swanson, 1924

Vest pocket sparrows
Zip through cattail labyrinths
Flying shuttle bobs

Harvestmen spiders
Rope dancing aerialists
Working without nets

Half heard Hindoo bells
Stretch silence into music
Raga then and now

Butsugen Temple Bell Tower,
Toyonaka, Osaka

Woven Basket

Basket of wax fruit
Unclaimed at a garage sale
Still life for the blind

Taking one last bow
Giant oak felled by lightning
Nets of lily rain

Bedizened nocturne
Red pyrotech sky serpents
The color of luck

Back bathed in moonlight
Indecipherable runes
Dead pine skeletons

Rune