IMPROVISATION#304
CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON'S LIFE
1926-2015

Ten years ago
remembering your lectures
on literature
when I ventured
out on the blinding snow
amazed at your understanding
of a poet culture that unveiled
but validated your mind
deposited in wit and writ
what you captured
in the shadow
of a century's spirit,
that rapture
your language unwinds
as you yourself
are now translated.