A young victim at Moscow Airport

she is done crying
now she slowly rocks herself
her wide open eyes

Evening toast

Lengthening shadows
day gives up -- reluctantly
we toast the evening

Moscow airport bombing victim

rivulets of red
running down her pale young face
she clutches a doll

Viva Vivaldi!

two in honor of the "red priest", Anna Giro, and the wayward girls from Ospedale
della Pietà


a bit of springtime
cheers him in January
his thoughts of Anna

Risque Vivaldi
his girls with their mandolins
trouble the censors

in honor of Jan. 20, 1961 -- JFK's Inaugural

An old poet reads
words held in his memory
that bright, cold noonday

spider's web

a spider's new web
glistening with morning dew
and stuck in my hair

Blackbird rain

New Year's sky darkens
five thousand blackbirds raining
on shocked onlookers