Waiting, waiting, waiting,
Always delay’d
Why did we fly Ryanair?
Waiting, waiting, waiting,
Always delay’d
Why did we fly Ryanair?

Reptile on a wall
Hot stone in Palermo
The warmth of Sicily

Palermo in the rain
A sea of umbrellas
Bad weather today

I tell you what I recall
not what I have forgotten:
memory
Inspired by a wax sculpture, “Dasha”, by Urs Fischer

Like a candle, an idea
burns through her brain
burrowing still deeper


Leaves are falling
sun rises late, air cooling
I’m thinking autumnal
Artwork by Man Ray (1890-1976)

It’s so simple yet so alluring
a sieve, a mouse trap:
it’s pure Dada

Is it à la mode?
A tailor’s design?
Or is it a torn jacket?
Contemplation of an artwork by Doris Salcedo

walking across the names
of refugees drown’d:
such is artwork today