Perusing Old Files

On one of our last outings with Kiyoko, we went out to lunch.

Afterwards, we paused in the parking lot for this portrait of Kiyoko and Patricia.

So lightly it goes

and so lightly it comes back

--the swallowtail

Kiyoko Tokutomi

from Kiyoko's Sky, Brooks Books, 2002. 
translated by Fay Aoyagi and Patricia Machmiller

perusing old files

dusty thoughts rise and settle--

the spinning spider

Patricia Machmiller

from Blush of Winter Moon