Friday, June 13, 2014

JEAN PAUL RIOPELLE
1923-2002

You introduced me
you as unstrapped form
and seduced a generation
eager for the abstract,
influenced like me
by Breton
as French critic said of me,
living in Giverny
far from Montreal,
you gave a floating tribute
in your fine painting
on Rosa Luxembourg
as a gift to your lover 
the artist Joan Mitchell
what oils,light, gloss
in your good works
which make us think
we have a right to be happy
in an unhinged afternoon
knowing the aberrant hours
of a vital genius has arrived.



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