IMPROVISATION#305
LORD BYRON'S DAY
(1788-1824)

By a flowered bed
somewhere in Greece
Lord Byron
is fully remembered
in my dream
released in his shirtsleeves
as England's bard
who believed in a poetry
wiped clean of camouflage
from routine images
in his texts of bringing
down all tyranny
of misfortune
to be released by our memory
in his vanguard of verse
without any stereotype
under the moon and sun.