IMPROVISATION# 312
FRANCIS PONGE'S WORLD
(1899-1988)

A cut
from a lost hang nail
haunts you
in the sitting room
embodying
your exercise
on a scale
of seven notes
on the piano
from Debussy
which expounds
a daily melody
chafed against you
for six months
escaping only in a landscape
of dark trees
by the Seine.