America Windows

Marc Chagall's America Windows, 1977
The Art Institute of Chicago

Red, yellow
green, orange
and pink
imaginations
defy gravity
in Chagall's
Vivaldian hands--

Creation
illuminated and joyful,
natural and delicate,
violet-blues and white-blues,
an impulse of blessed blue purity
leaps from minds
who form life
and frolic death
and sparkle history

Like a nation of makers
no longer youthful
or industrious
of necessity
but instinctively
killing time
with new creations
and Chagall
was one of us.

Unpublished, 2010

Gio reads "America Windows" on YouTube