Urban gleaners (Harvest Moon)

moonlit harvesting
with their backs bent they reach out
so desperately

remembering Andy Williams

in the night's stillness
moonlight reflected by a river
is enough

Kaddish for a Cardinal

may his name be great
for giving us this holy priest

a remembrance of Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger, late archbishop of Paris

Neil Armstrong's final voyage

an old sailor
sets sail due west
crewed by memory

Forest fire

cloud of thick smoke
from a burning forest
unheard screams

The Reader

a late summer breeze
turns pages of a book
while a reader dozes

The 7th Sister of the Pleiades

she hides
behind her ample mom
playful Merope