MOREAU'S INFLUENCE

I wander by the museum
of Modern Art in Paris
fresh from having a dream
of his "Jupiter and Semele"
and "The Magi"
and not to embarrass
this "Salome"
or his illustrations
of "La Fontaine"
waiting to view
all his mythology
and having
a lengthy read lecture
and questioned conversation
of his texture
in his cultured paintings
with a sequence of students
who conjecture
about Gustave Moreau
this forerunner of influence
in shadows of the surrealists.