Leonardo
Why
is
sky blue?
he wondered.
The man from Vinci.
How long is a woodpecker's tongue?
He could see us as clearly as an airport scanner,
probing sub-skin with a scalpel.
What's behind a smile?
Stretched muscles,
secret
thoughts,
love.
He
was
handsome,
golden-haired,
unlike normal men,
left-handed, gay, no good at sums,
the guest star at Italian Renaissance parties,
a fun pink-suited scientist,
art's great observer.
His keen eyes
see through
us
still.
