"Chiaroscuro," Four

       Chiaroscuro is what I see on the hills north of the San Fernando Valley.  And chiaroscuro is what I hear in the rolling syllables of the word key-ARE-o-SKOOR-o, light and heavy syllables contrasting and blending into one another.  I think there's even chiaroscuro in the amplitude and gradations of Italian gesture.
      
       And did you know "squirrel" has the same root as the last part of chiaroscuro?  Say "squirrel."  Now say SKOOR-o.  The little animal named for its bushy tail, "shadow" tail, a tail large enough to cast its own shadow, and an animal that moves like the letter "S" of "shadow" sidewise along the ground, undulating like the hills of home.