MALLARME AND FONTANA

In dicey nudes on paper
with configurations
of emblems and spiral notes
embracing body and soul
from cultural apertures
on canvas' shading words
concepts, abstractions,directions
in a time of happenings
when perforated from a surface
in highly sated poems kiss us
from "Paintings of Venice"
believing they are sculpture
breaking stone from past time
arranged in a whole chronicle of a hole
by a new perspective space
discovering in an editorial
from a cast off pictorial view
as a counterpoint to what will last
from "Fine di Dio"
in an underscored modernism
and chords of once passionate allegiance
to the corporate state of mind
to disharmonize the density,
all the alchemy of language
the moving of dream reality,
from the death of a renaissance
and romanticism
to a create of greater capacity
assured in the "Gay Science "alert
of a mad nihilistic age
with a certain self abandonment
of seismic verses scattered
with a seething sagacity
of a once awed miracle God
you both in critical retrospect
are a presaged sages and pioneers
of the new symbolism.