What must not be mentioned: The Barbarity of certain Images*

6:54:00 PM | Classification: Renga

(a renga written during Tim Lantz's 2nd birthday)**

I saw her with a curve on her lips-

the kind of anonymity of pleasure

i felt once again

and there was a dove

as it flapped its wings

and drew closer to her

but she was writing something,

she never noticed the grace of the bird

as it stooped

she was busy and still

adoring the silence of words

and the elegance of each script

i knew she was dancing

with the pain

of melancholy

i was distant-

a window glass and five couples

between us

i walked away,

as if i knew what

she had written-

veering away

i tried to catch

another trip.

*from Louise Durpe's Liszt or Schumann

**contributors:

A Marriage of Words and Images