INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE

Bach took from Vivaldi
and Gramsci from Marx
street poets look to Pasolini
as tiny birds ascending larks,
where are the solo phrases
discovering our concertos
and ease of words,
there are few critics
to praise us in the know
for we who are often lost
in  reverie or ennui
as Poe's ravens or Rilke's angels
in the cross walked snow.