Gianpiero Actis’art is included in a new Bilingual Broadside Series created by Stanley Barkan of Cross-Cultural Communications. His paintings appear in different Broadsides and his art is paired with the poetry of William Heyen, Kyung-Nyun Richards, Peter Thabit Jones and Lidia Chiarelli.
CATS WILL KNOW
Among flowers and sills
the cats will know it.
from Cesare Pavese’s “The cats will know”
A silver moon rises
drawing a diaphanous path
on the ocean.
Only a lonely cat
leads our way tonight.
The wind moans
and whispers its ancient story.
Other days will come
and it will be the time
of missing words,
a time when
all our memories
go missing one by one
in the winter silence.
LIDIA CHIARELLI (Italy)
Cheshire Cat, acrylic on canvas, 9 x 14" - 2016, by Gianpiero Actis
Cross-Cultural Communications Cat Poems Postcard #5, 2016