Secrets no one knows Look up to the cotton skies, From South, with love Blackbird sings in the shadows Only the lonely know the incurable silence Old loneliness set in the country wind The stories are all that remain The Deserts Secrets Forgotten in Time Dreams drifted to nightmare You sit with me in my silence The emptyness of my night Pale blues fade into darkness Wait to hear the sounds of others You said hello, and I was yellow Asking a Shadow to Dance Stealing me from reality Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, Ohio