IMPROVISATION# 309
WALTER PATER'S HOUR
1839-1994

Memories of an aesthete
in the choice drawing room
by the Walter Pater's
mirrors
in extravagance
of a novelist
walking about
who has a voice
signalling a literary event
in a picture of a gentleman
spanning an innocent
with inconstancy of mood
yet not at ease
wary of any caricature
aware of the existence
in a literary solitude.