IMPROVISATION#41
GIORGIO DE CHRICO's TIME
(1888-1987)

Your "Enigmas" of light
taught you
how close to tears
we are as shooting stars
as art supplants
each faint flame in desire
of reaching out to inscribe
those metaphors of love
from your red ink signatures
meeting Tristan Tsara
the father of Dada
indoors signing your name
by design on the canvas
over January sheets
near a day bed,
strengthening a paper weight
with atoms of snow
on these vulnerable years
by catching the memory
of a violin player's notes
from outside your art balcony
at your opening windows
crashing any day dreams
yet abiding in quotes
from your bride, Raissa
the Russian ballerina
with upturned eyelashes
when you know
it's your destiny
to go past
the Tuscany screen
as you desired to paint
 "The Uncertainty
of a Poet", 1913.