MOTHERWELL'S IBERIA NO. 2

We both loved Blake
Picasso and Matisse
as you spoke
of your painting
"Cape Cod"
at the first art lectern
in my adolescence
with your sense of open
spatiality of your soul
from a blue ocean of ink
in graphite and charcoal
all the artifacts and prism
of world culture
in drawing humanity
of the Platonic and Judaic,
minimalism or Sephardic
from primitive to abstracts
pop,graphite or monochrome
and the baroque yet processed
he visits a Spanish home
in time of Civil War
with a personal invitation
now along the mural walls
with fresh
cosmopolitan innovations
vanishing in a cerulean motion
of him hunched over
brushing strokes
in its  cultured totality
drowned in an ocean
a free fall imagination
of the learned from Vienna
or newly found eidetic sound
as  an object d'art in his memory
of burnt siena discerned by critics
fueled by a critic's learned language
outlasting his "Iberia No.2"
ground in deep concentration
from bards like your comrade
Frank O'Hara whose lunch poems
you carry with his poetic mantra
logos, symbol and signature
from the New York school.