LEON SPILLIAERT'S ART
(1860-1949)

In a Mardi Gras parade
watching the masks
shade in your painting
in catching caricatures
of an underground culture
sounding out a prism's scene
in an allegorical picture
of humanity's exhibition
in fainting colors foreboding
the palette of a poet's wit
asking for us to view
a newly sight read
symbolist's composition
of a lyrical expressionism.