IMPROVISATION# 169
ALDO ROSSI'S BUILD UP
(1931-1997)

Whether in theory
of Aldo Rossi's
 history
  or cathedrals
   town  halls
 or theaters   of the world
 your build up
has revealed
in the lucid footnotes
 concealed
  in your catalogs
 which direct us
   with instruction
 to school manuals
  and cool wall murals
from an amateur introduction
 from my library
 of architecture
  with the starry wonder
 in understanding
the best of  contemporary  culture
  even in Soho commanding
 giant spaces   for poets
  in sleep and warehouses
you will deposit     analogous traces
of deep thrilling apertures
 as far away in Trieste.