IMPROVISATION# 96
THE DOOR OPENS
(Barnett Newman
Jan. 29,1905-1970)

The door opens
of the museum's desk
by the corridor
of a sculptor and artist
at artistic risk
near the spoken landscape
of color field paintings
from Barnett Newman
like ''Broken Obelisk"
in shape from an ochre span
you awaken and escape
as it were another dimension
of an admirer in a mirror
from the large shielding shade
of linear and vertical
lines of his "Zips"
one can hear Jesus's voice
from his own lips
''Why have you forsaken me''
in his "Stations of the Cross''
when everything seems new
in the promise and premise
of ''Who is afraid
of Red, Yellow, Blue."