PICASSO BLUES

Picasso's blues
came to Hartford in 1934
near Wallace Steven's
estate as he is writing
''The Man with a Blue Guitar''
out of his poetic articulated voice
which paints from his words
his spirit's heart beat
like a local locomotive engineer
in his language of imaginative art
for two articulate surrealists
Picasso and Stevens
whose metaphoric experiments
communicate to observe
in their briefing books
folders of dada bas reliefs
in drawings of fictive colors
where an enriched poet and artist
realize their complex landscapes
of explored gestured reality
from geometric shapes and lines
now recognized by their tone
for their dramatic satisfactions
of what our time now acknowledges
with modernist prisms of technique
to open up for the modern mind.