Conrad DiDiodatoOct 12, 20201 minThe cat man of Aleppo (2)When they’re out of his fields, and the lone husky heart of the cat-saint takes one in , look on a bit & wait. The two or three others,...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 12, 20201 minThe cat man of Aleppo (4)The cat-saint says,” If I cannot follow him to the damp & dark from which he comes, cradled first in the needle bed and rocks-- then then...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 12, 20201 minThe cat man of Aleppo (5)The cat-saint, reflecting on one in particular, finds time to say, “Rains can't wither tails any more nor a tabby's puff-cheeks, powdery...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 12, 20201 minTo a Monarch butterfly seen in 'Longwood Gardens', PennsylvaniaIt's good to see, borne on the same savior wing, both flight and an airy death— Beyond the impassioned spiny needle floors coarsened by...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 12, 20201 minSerenissima (a collaborative poem)Just behind-- to one side of this koten canvas-- & reared up from base to top is a shady dome receding through the haijin’s Art: with...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 12, 20201 minPalabras( inspired by a photo I recently saw of Margot and her father) There’s a word for dad and daughter, for heart and the loneliest anemone...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 12, 20201 minDaniel HillAt a Missions garden of Nile lilies, and yucca, a ginger paradise, lush, looking about ready to burst bloody to its toes: and through a...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 12, 20201 minAutumn lakeMaybe the sand that holds up its end of a very cold lake can also sop storm surges, & the pesky zebras, passing through, that attach to...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 12, 20201 minKell verses (for Katherine L. Gordon)She sits in her stone seat,beside two tractor wheels,musing, the jug beneath her feet,earth of clay at her heels-- dear Kate, prophetess...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 12, 20201 min"Poème Apparition" (A translation)La lune s’attristait. Des séraphins en pleurs Rêvant, l’archet aux doigts, dans le calme des fleurs Vaporeuses, tiraient de mourantes...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 12, 20201 minCanatara (for Colleen)Even with lethal Tree &indomitable leaf, the woods breathe in frost and breathe out warm sandy shores, a water's cresting scent A forest...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 12, 20201 min"Felicissima"Always dear but curving close to the door, cats like this can peel the light off a star-- slip it slyly under an eye, & still sleep A...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 12, 20201 minCaro cardo: JulesThere's a moose sprawled on the highway as some spiritual food (pierced to its poor minnow heart) saying no to decay, exemplarily and...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 12, 20201 minComposite catholic"Life is short, eternity is long" (John Henry Newman) _______ It was face, and it was eyes, at first The asphyxiating power of chins--...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 12, 20202 minMary the obstinate (forMagdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón)In Ephesus, standing somewhere between the hovel where Mary supposedly had spent her final years and the remains of the temple to Diana,...