walks with me, beside fruit trees,
speaking of haiku.
Ninja Takako
works at night with her chisel,
carving new gargoyles.
(from Camino Poems: Lays of Leon)
. Let the Naiads sing Who will wear the Starry Crown? Then eat cake. (from The Paean of Dignity, 3d edn)
Caribbean Dreams waylay us in deep winter but the snow prevails (from Crepuscular Idyll)
An invocation of contradiction of sorts Winter is still with us. (From Tales of Persepolis: Lockdown Lays)