IMPROVISATION #166

GEORGES ROUALT"S TIME
(1871-1958)

The clown
 is only our thinking
of a harlequin
  concentrating
 only on celebrating
  at the uneasy circus
  where  light that
 from a tent
  presses close to
  your entertainment
    yet the atonement
    of the tree cross
  always hangs alone
near you
 art is still breathing
 for the atoning poor
if we are to believe
   you cannot ignore
with impunity
       your own tone of colors
  of  a zealous departing
as blood from a stone.