Sunday, December 11, 2011

LOVE ~







Friends ~ and you know who you are ~
we lost Shizumi Corman
on November 30, 2011.


Shizumi is now where she always said she always wanted to be,
with her husband Cid Corman (1924-2004 ).


Kyoto has a dove flying overhead.


I had a thirty year strong relationship and correspondence with Cid, often four letters a week, in the good old days of blue aerogrammes. Who, possibly, has that much to say? But we did. And when Cid was gone, for those few years more, when I wrote to Shizumi, she asked that I continue addressing the letters as I always had "dear Cid & Shizumi". Including having Cid's name on the mailing envelope.


The muse behind 1000 poems.




I leave my

life with you



Make of it

what you can.




~ CC





Shizumi Corman
(Konishi Shizumi)





Baby—we've all jumped

from the pot into the fire.

Ain't we something else?


~ CC





calligraphy © shizumi corman
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photo © susan arnold