IMPROVISATION #48
(LEGER 1881-1955)

Not afraid to believe
in your patches
in a field of primary
colors or photos
in your movie sets
or painting snatches
us a forerunner
of pop art
painting in the dawn
"The Smokers'
influenced by Cezanne
in his salon
passing his new focus
touring us in a landscape
shaping him at Montparnasse
or in the new cubism
as in "Three Musicians''
a "Tree in the Ladder"
from a new progenitor
in polychrome
in a miracle of stained glass
from a dome
set in costume and design
of murals drawn at home.