JASPER JOHNS'S INFLUENCE

You took Hart
and Stevens
at their word,
knowing
the beginning of a work
in spite of back breaking
is the melancholic way
of understanding
the immense cosmic
geometric self
involved in poetry
even in an abstract way
when lighting's spectacle
gives painting a miracle
in an aesetic sense
with the flickering passing
of electric blue resonance
caressing new language.