Yves St Laurent appropriated
an overseas shade of blue –
it
may be so construed [theft of
Moroccan sky above his villa]
I gave up tiling mathematics –
His laid out garden blew dry –
I have walked his paths from
wall-to-wall as prayers called
from a high distance –
Others
have had better times in that
place –
bared behind a gate &
rolled to be taken –
mistaken