All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
-Pablo Picasso
Crossroads
Absolution
made my peace with God
that sunday morning
while the golden sea
showed it’s’ calm smooth temperament
i watched your nude
aristocratic hips
in the early morning shadows
my heart swelled with joy
the beauty of it all
absolution had been granted
sinners don’t have such mornings
Elaine Mills
Fall, 1972
In the cemetery in Albiano
Against a marble wall
The name and photograph
of grandfather Toni
Is placed in letters of bronze
His bones rest on a hill
Overlooking a small town in Colorado
He would like his bones
To be here
Elaine Mills
Written in Albiano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy
On one of my trips
