Georgia O'Keeffe,
Black Hollyhock, Blue Larkspur
1929

Indigo flowers
Sapphire sisters united
Weave an old spell

Whispers of a ghost
Float about poet muses
Time sent cooling shade

Voices from deep space
Grotesquely beautiful sounds
Lost in cosmic dust

Night moves from my eyes
Blurred neon shadow spirits
Flee first light of day

Grotesque words invade
Offend sensibilities
Tickling my fancy

Aurora Borealis

Sam Abell,
Moscow, Soviet Union,
1983 (detail)

Daylight's new promise
Curls through windows and curtains
Dancing on the walls

Day is beginning
And always ending somewhere
Bordered by middles