| Stephy Writing |
| Sari Women Young girl dances on the street, a silk cloth flutters on tired breezes. The sad music of the sitar and sari garbed women tell of forbidden loves. Young man watches with fire in his dark eyes, hidden beneath an iron turban of caste and tradition. His eyes to her eyes, like young swallows falling in the wind. |
| First Minute The first minute of the new day. Where has time separated itself? No cleave between the moon and sun apparent in their smooth arches across my world! How then, the new day? Spent in reflection, it's first minute. |
| Two Japanese White-Eyes 2 Japanese White-eyes... ... in an orange tree. Not much larger than the leaves, they flit finch-like... ... in-between. One bough bends the faintest bit, My eye follows to see -- was it the wind? Or something small and sleek and green. While playing a game of hide... ... and seek? Camouflaged, a flash of their paler undersides Is glimpsed between two orange rinds- From juicy fruit they now tweet payment for In tones too soft for human ear, Which is why my muddy little dog Sits entranced a bound away- His tongue agape, his tail a-wag To see how long the two... ... will stay. |
| ORIGAMI She never stopped folding/ She never stopped creasing Fold crease Fold crease Fold Folding always came first Fold crease Fold Ingenious/Rhythmic Fold crease Fold But always the same paper Fold crease Fold Soon it gave out Fold Fold She couldn't crease it Fold Fold Fold She started to fold herself Fold crease Fold crease Fold Until she (Fold) disappeared. |
| I am an earthless world, amazingly small, A rainbow reeling, though round, I don't roll. A misty mirror melding moistly to a wall, Resembling freedom, I fear a fall. The wind is my carriage, capriciously I cavort Wet and winsome Dying in puff of dry dust or cold, Caught happily in the hands of an elder elm. Silken soft is my soundless death. Invisible shimmer shines, then shakes Quivering clearly, all sides depart Soft as the smallest baby's kiss. Slick water, my blood, my skin And breather as my body, now breathe my name. |