by Joanne De Simone Reynolds
Joni you are glowing in your natural make-up
I love you as much as I love Joan Mitchell—
Works bursting out of this world Your verse
Flaring Warning me to prepare to bleed
And I have
And what you sing about stardust
Is oracular and thankfully on track
But as far as the garden goes I think you know
There’s no going back (O for the roses Joni!)
I’d like to think you’ll be alright with that—
The mix constellating In keeping Playing out
Unceasingly on the stage
Of the night sky Never expiring Catalyzing Fanning
Consciousness (and hopefully passion) Quality we call star
Joanne De Simone Reynolds has published her work in The New Verse News, Salamander, The Ekphrastic Review, Ibbetson Street, Wilderness House Literary Review, and Lyrical Somerville, among other journals. Her collection of ekphrastic poems for 2020 Art Ramble can be viewed at theumbrellaarts.org. In 2023 she was poetry judge for Art on the Trails in Southborough, Ma.after placing first for poetry in 2022.
