CONSTANTIN GUYS (1802-1892)

Baudelaire enjoyed
Constantin Guys
this painter of water color
and illustrator at his bench
even compared him
to a Whistler in French
in the Second Empire life
in his span he composed
"The Young Spanish Woman"
and "The Loge at the Opera"
among those who sinned
and in an encounter
yet only recognized in art
who suddenly vanish
as a daughter or young man
on a wall in the museum
lost in the shadowy wind
are not surprised
at the large sized window
of a dream by a counterpart.