Classic Poem

Rhymed address to Carl Rakosi
acknowledging (with thanks)
the excellence of his poem —

The Lobster:

Superb light
and life which in
the mind seems

red even when we know
it must be
green —

luminosity of genius
which strikes
livening it

even to the ocean's
bed!
The sun

which makes
leaves of two colors
dark and bright

in every tree
flower tho' he may
lacks light

without that final