MARTIAN CHRONICLES (1950)
I first met Ray Bradbury in the pages of his book The Illustrated Man way back in 1951. His easy flowing, poetic style of writing science fiction and fantasy hooked me into a love of these genres to this ...
THE LILY PAD, THE JAPANESE BRIDGE
Painting by Claude Monet (1899); Poem by Sal Buttaci (1994)
Who could imagine what Monet was thinking
when he took his brush to this!
Ask him what inspired him
and he will no doubt lie,
say "The Japanes ...
THE CART: THE ROAD UNDER SNOW IN HONFLEUR
Painting by Claude Monet, 1865;
Poem by Salvatore Buttaci, 1994
The road under snow we ought best
not to complain about!
Yet we do so every winter, don't we?
You say the jostling ride hurts
your ba ...
THE CART: THE ROAD UNDER SNOW IN HONFLEUR
Painting by Claude Monet, 1865;
Poem by Salvatore Buttaci, 1994
The road under snow we ought best
not to complain about!
Yet we do so every winter, don't we?
You say the jostling ride hurts
your ba ...
THE CART: THE ROAD UNDER SNOW IN HONFLEUR
Painting by Claude Monet, 1865;
Poem by Salvatore Buttaci, 1994
The road under snow we ought best
not to complain about!
Yet we do so every winter, don't we?
You say the jostling ride hurts
your ba ...
BIG JOE HAMMER DR0VE THIS CAR
BUT THE HAT HE WORE ON HIS HEAD
Yuh want my real name or duh one duh guys gimme
back on Grand Street when I wuz twelve or doiteen?
My mudder give me names long as yuh arm!
"Where dja dig 'em up?" I used tuh te ...
ARCHIMEDES IN HIS WOODEN TUB, WORKING ON HIS FAMOUS PRINCIPLE
No book about Sicilians would be complete without mention of Sicily's favorite son Archimedes. However, not content with simply mentioning that renowned mathematicia ...
ARCHIMEDES IN HIS WOODEN TUB, WORKING ON HIS FAMOUS PRINCIPLE
No book about Sicilians would be complete without mention of Sicily's favorite son Archimedes. However, not content with simply mentioning that renowned mathematicia ...
Painting by Auguste Renoir, 1876
Poem by Salvatore Buttaci, 1994
This is not the veil I had hoped to wear.
You can take that for the God-honest truth!
This one is black; the other was white.
This is today: a time for mourning.
Tha ...
STEMS OF WHITE PEONIES AND PRUNING SHEARS
Painting by Edouard Manet (1864)
Poem by Salvatore Buttaci (1994)
We play the game sometimes
of divining the alter egos
of your garden flowers:
What they resembled
on their tall green stems,
what ...
BERTHE MORISOT
Painting by Edouard Manet (1873)
Poem by Salvatore Buttaci (1994)
"Too much yellow!" I tell the painter.
"You've made me out to appear
some pasty- ...
BERTHE MORISOT
Painting by Edouard Manet (1873)
Poem by Salvatore Buttaci (1994)
"Too much yellow!" I tell the painter.
"You've made me out to appear
some pasty- ... 
