Weekly Poem: durable whiteness

September 29, 2013

By Diane Castiglioni

still flayed by the swollen pelt racked by pain
durable whiteness
amidst the cracked red sea
a new landscape across my canvas
a new story
you orestes
me hypatia
alack
to have veered so beautifully
the fragrant path
a fugue
hiatus
midsummer night’s dream
as a lark in a rabbit’s hole
queen maeb
the fairies’ midwife
who gallops night by night
with blistered plagues
yet delivers sweet jewels into my weary hands
midnight blue belladonna
no more to be dissuaded from the arrows of the heart

This piece was written by:

Diane Castiglioni

Diane Castiglioni is part of an international team of facilitators who travel the world to help solve complex issues using art, music, technology and other collaborative tools for organizations, nonprofits, and community development groups. She is a contributing author to Dictionnaire Universel du Pain (Bouquin Laffont, 2011), and an editor of the International Cooperation for the Development of Space (ATWG, 2012).