IMPROVISATION# 308
RUSKIN'S WORLD
(1819-1900)

John Ruskin's world
in defense for Turner
upon the artist's plight
and in his learner's
permitted love
of the pre Raphaelites,
in his guest lectures
committed
with his fine arts words
on culture,architecture
and admitted encounters
in the business of painting
discerns in his insight
of waiting on dry bones
at in imparting discoveries
from stones at a study
of geology
amid hidden rocks and plants
in his quest of biology
and above all the sky birds
in a study of ornithology.