by Joanne De Simone Reynolds
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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
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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.
As if written to a wise, older sister who offers us a view ... a very long view.
Thank you Joanne De Simone Reynolds and thank you still, to Joni Mitchell