JEAN STAROBINSKI'S INK DREAMS

With the snap and stamp
of historical fate
"Staro" in the shadows
investigates our melancholy
dropping ink dreams
within a doctor of the mind,
your hurting face and intellect
opens to a celluloid century
with grey screens
onto the totalitarian smoke
with every breath
of defecated air
from grave digging fascism,
you escaped from Hades,
unlike Benjamin
by a moment in time
turning an orchestral timpani
of musical notes
into a life time echo
and epoch of peace
keeping your innocence
like Rousseau,
playing the kettledrum
and piano of warning
for our post war aeon.