Chagall’s fiddler and his song

blue blind angels transverse their chart their paths cross skies

they are purple behind the clouds of a foreign signature immediately read by any cortex aflight as kind but dark

tiny shacks support the blue fiddler scraping a melody from catgut and dust and rosin and the timbre of his instrument is a threnody

the Kabbalists say nothing just listen to the word

their verdict encrypted in scripture

framed as a peinture is sibilant and stark as dawn elevates the heavens a heavy burden for one man a poet and any musician

those given to insomnia struggle yet are glad they see this vision to assist their dreams in slumberous states familiar to all men

though transient as any migraineur permits

the earth itself is phantomed grey and opaque scuplted randomly in converse precision as vertical as birth

brides and grooms in absentia embrace also horizontal in his paintings they are so vivid an imprint on the globe

a spent rocket a trajectory merely a tour guide though the canyons of the heart

stars explode in retrospect

as a court reserves its judgment

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