IMPROVISATION #252
BRISSET'S HOUR(1837-1919)

Reading a French art
in a catalog
by the museum's window
and came clear
across Jean-Pierre Brisset's hour
who like Rousseau
came out of a setting
in a romantic wellspring
as an inventor, translator
of a timeless age
with an underground of ideas
in philosophical reflection
a mentor of ironies
in a myriad selection
watching peonies
while jogging
in the meadows
as in an acoustic shadow
sounds in the breeze.