MALEVICH

Drops of patinas
paints belonging
to D.N.A.'s canvas'
of a new century's
expressionist eyes
into a transformation
of a Russian freshness
from angular shapes
and sustained colors.

PICASSO'S TIME

An embrace
of revolutionary paint
that faces mirror dreams
against the daylight
in a remembered time
escorted from refugees
from fascism
engraved by your signature
when history doomed art.

CONCERNING THE MOON

Before laboring names
until we remember
the right disguise
of the moon
high over the street lights
on our avenue of flower shops
and book stalls
the present is weightless
for those who sleep walk
vanishing in a human voice
on angel's step ladders
shrouded from wild stares
of a melancholy poet.

A POET'S IMPLICATIONS

You set out
apprenticed for life
with your hands on
stalking words as proofs
in language shadows
of apprised verse
from unlettered reason
of imminence of rhyme
in attuned hunches
of turned on verbs
unloosed sentences
and suspected convictions
hiding in concave lines
surfacing from
your  short earth-wise time
impacting your own survival.

IN OUR NATURE'S CAPACITY

In our nature's capacity
sunshine glimmers
from the countryside,
city and open sea
in a now toxic world
when clear water and sky
are secretive as acid rain
among dead fish and birds
now fall as intruders
crying out in branches
of ash trees and ocean
as mourning doves
witness the frankness
of an earth-wise reality.

RODOMONTADE

Boasting early in the day
you won't take your leave
of sashimi, fruits or grapes
from the table of contents
after a Firbankian brunch
of more than a combo
of any continental breakfast
consisting of inflated talk
of your next novel novel
outdoing Nabokov
in a play above yourself
with a vast pavilion
of images to impress
the fourth estate.

WALLACE STEVENS' PEACE

No conflict
with roses
in your hands
reaching out
on your balcony
each petal
once under worms
runs by the sea
you glimpsing scars
from the sunshine.