Abstract Collage 2017 by Marie Bortolotto

Marie Bortolotto 2017

A Way

A way to pure joy
is in the morning sunlight's hiyo bird
chanting from the swaying top of a tall bamboo.
Glimpsed between the other swaying fronds and blue sky
beyond the yellowed blades of leaves,
he calls. I answer. He answers back.
Again and again until whether it is his sounds or mine is gone
and I am bird, sunlight, long swaying fronds.

- Edith Shiffert 1916-2017, American Poet