IMPROVISATION#295
TALE OF GENJI

My niece
is in Florida
teaching the"Tale
of Genji"
trying to understand
the sensibility
in the Japan
of the eleventh century
while I was reaching
to celebrate at the Common
over a snowy dawn
on the 19th of a January birthday
by the serious earthly statue
in the shadowy lane
of the mysterious labyrinth story
from the Boston born Poe.