IMPROVISATION #212
YORAM’S APPEARANCE

                                                           
Your now patched
up canvases
merely appear as a gesture
in a Joseph’s dream
of dreams
for you are an artist poet
of culture, it seems
in whose drawings
will outlive the fires
or any conduit of exile
or long suffering
with your ruddy
abstract paintings
inflamed by arson culprits
now on trial
they who have put your art
into the well of a pit
like Joseph
do not know the conscience
of their acts
but your sodden coats
of many faint colors
will be shown to dwell
from a silent honor
in those who love
the God of Israel.