IMPROVISATION #252
READING REVERDY

Reading Reverdy
 pausing on the beach
      in blankets
another is drawing
 a mural in a color field
in canvas covering
   over orange and red sponges
on the sea Coast beds
     to astonish us
 we reaching out for shells
among the shore's seaweed
 stones of Provence
   yet finding whale bones
   by a diary of influence
from a politician
as we read French quatrains
   as and hide out
from shields
of hail and rain.