LEON SPILLAIART'S ART
(1881-1946)

Veils in seascape
like pale Poe symbols

A dilettante watches
landscapes too as silences

at the Musee d'Orsay
with his tutor in Paris

laughing at wall art
of a performing Redon

a fellow Belgian somnambulist
turns the corner but cannot locate

the sleepless abstracts embarrass
us until after the echoes of night.