She sleeps upright
Alabaster hooded eyelids
Cast in perpetual meditation
Hot colors close in around her
At the center of the great room stands
A teal green basin with a thin crack on a pedestal.
I conjure a Harvest Moon, when all things ripen
Shining a wide band of light
Underscoring the fissure in the column to her right.
Her colossal silence screams at the consequence
As I continue unruffled
To get a better view of the deity.
11/7/2025 Cornelia DeDona
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C. S. De Dona
Author, Poet, Photographer, domestic violence survivor, and naturalized immigrant, Cornelia is currently an Arts and Letters member of The Southwest Florida Branch of The National League Of American Pen Women.
Cornelia lived in Kaneohe, Hawaii, for thirty-six years. Also, seven years in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. She now resides in North Fort Myers, Florida.
Her poems and photography are published in print, online, and in Rain Bird, a literary and art journal of the University of Hawaii's Windward Community College (2008-2013).
In 2013, Cornelia received Rain Bird's Kolokolea Poetry Prize for her poem, "Speaking French."
In 2016, her chapbook "Hawaiian Time," entered in the National League of American Pen Women's Vinnie Ream contest, was awarded third place in their inaugural multi-discipline category.
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