1
unega means white in Cherokee
birch snow
sugar water
Blue Ridge
white
river forest
Lake Lure
2
who works around the corner
lurks among the elderberry
ornery old bat
that catamount
3
illness has a face
small and delicate
but a tall body
thin shadowed
at first
but then it lurches
forward,
finds you
bloats
until you float inside
dark and afraid
4
The Uffizi is free online.
So too the Tate.
Isn't that great?
From the Arno, Thames
I've buckles plucked from the muck.
Skill and luck -
My people -
painters, mudlarks.
