Kate Wiley - Empyreal

On Chopin's 24 Etudes

These images before my eyes
Pass vaguely-shadows shimmering.
Bright spirits in a Delphic guise-
Not long here, quickly vaporing,

Exquisite forms not having names,
They drift without my catching them.
Some flash in meteoric storm,
But some just colors-epherim.

Kate Wiley

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