MICHAEL BUTOR'S LEGACY
(1926-2016)

Ashbery wanted to sit
next to you
at a swanky Big Apple
dinner and discuss
a sample of his text
from his legacy
and decipher
those lasting materials
as a sculptor
existential philosopher
novelist, author
as in "Nouveaux Romanciers"
with an essential modernity
an explorer of words
and poet master of humanity.