IMPROVISATION #44
ANDRE BRETON'S TIME
(1898-1966)

With the war clouds fallen
in Andre's Breton's time
extending a vulnerable shroud
over his passing
still shadows us
to be willing as always
offering his less than still life
to the Resistance
with surrealistic manifestos
in his willing oratory
by the Seine jogging
along Paris's hallways
comparable to themes
of Freud we came to know
with his psychiatric medicine
and devotee of Alfred Jarry
who traffics as a poet
and absurdist  play write
in a surrealistic discipline
meeting the father of dada
in the verse of Tristan Tzara
to those workers unemployed
shackled by capital's sin
in exhaustible prodding
weighing each one
reaching for peace
by dissecting fascistic bullying
herded into your infighting
upon a political tightrope
with your reputation
plodding on one thing
to another as it if
only is to increase
a love language as a poet
which gave us hope
during those dark years,
and know its critical process
into the sunset shade
on an awakening mural
from a universal dream
in honoring you
by holding up
a cup and a shield
of creative miracles
as a pioneer
from an abstract color field.