ANDRE BRETON'S MIRROR
FEB. 19 1896

When the visiting
French critic
said to me
'Do you know Breton's verse"?
and only eighteen
despite my youth
she brought me
to Breton's mirror of books
after class
seated me by the table
and had me type
in French
about myself
telling her my cousin
fought in the Resistance
and have a stamp
with his picture on it,
both Pierre and Andre
became an assembly
of fresh stars in my life
when we shared our poetry
years later
in the twilight of the Louvre.