16. SHADOWS IN HER FACE

She is a concert violinist

She has distant sophisticated eyes

Since childhood she has interpreted

Deep classical pieces

And naturally

It has profoundly affected the manner in which

She perceives the world.

Her ancestors

Are Spanish Gypsies.

Do you ever think of how passion-filled people

Like Gypsies

Have been exterminated

So often

By the prosaic hordes

Who could not understand them?

And the result?

More Passion.

I photographed her

In a graveyard

In the summer

Naked

On the tombstone

Of a WWI aeroplane pilot

Named Chauncey.