Dedication On The Publishing Of My First Book Of Poems

I would like to thank Daniel and everyone he 
works with for materializing this book. It really 
seems like magic to me the way it came about.

Writing, painting, dancing, singing, all art comes 

as a  natural expression of the human heart 

since humans painted in caves, as necessary 

to their existence as  the air they breathed and 

the food they ate.

It is spiritual in that it connects our minds.

It is universal in that everyone has heard the sound 

of the water when the frog jumps into Basho's pond.

It is not entertainment because it is the opposite of

distraction. It draws our attention the way we 

remember listening to our grandmother's stories 

when we were children.

It is necessity of love, though it expresses the 

rainbow of emotions.

It is the anthem of our species.

It gives me joy to know that some 

will hear these words.

(to be read in Bucharest at a dedication of the book, April 6)