PAVEL TCHELITCHEW'S VISION


With a luminous gesture
shaping his bio
as a Russian seer,
an anatomical artist
exiled like Lear
in the snow
a friend of Stein in Paris
drank a matron's wine
and with Sitwell his patron
not embarrassed to hear
of his gay adventures
in his pictures
smiling with Cocteau
on the Champs-elysees.