IMPROVISATION #265
BY AN INDIAN READING LAMP

By a reading lamp
watching out
my window
at the snow shadows
stamped on the road
over the landscape
of color field
by the visible hull
of a traffic of sea boats
anchored near
the home harbor
as birds with wing beats
take off over my roof
and here painting
in my sound proof studio
a poem emerges
in words and voices
from my underground
as scenes from a Satyajit Ray
film ''The World of Apu''
move through my mind.