Brian - I enjoyed both of your poems. Gesualdo was certainly a character!
I read that Mozart actually died because his doctor drew too much blood from him and he went into shock. But here is another hypothesis I just found:
https://www.chron.com/news/bizarre/a...rs-1735278.php
Annie - I love the combination of Ella’s singing in the background during the N’s meal and how it has a huge influence on how she (the N) assesses the taste of her dinner.
Fliss - I really enjoyed “The Hills of Anacapri.” It’s so image-filled and lyrical! Debussy, by the way, is one of my favorite composers. Here is a poem with both planets and music. It’s a blues sonnet.
Singing the Blues Between Mars and Jupiter
I sit here on this oblong asteroid,
atop this pirouetting asteroid,
recalling the adventures we enjoyed,
those times we tumbled in low gravity,
the thrill of tumbling in low gravity
like butterflies when you and I were “we.”
I hurtle through the void among the dust.
I hurtle with the stones and with the dust.
Sweep me to Earth on a tangent solar gust.
Once more we’ll skip and play in mutual orbit.
We’ll trip and dance and dart in mutual orbit
and feel each wave of moonlight and absorb it.
Come visit. Girl, don’t give me the cold shoulder.
Unfreeze the ancient ices on this boulder!
(Appeared in Tilt-a-Whirl: A Poetry Sporadical of Repeating Forms.)