Minimalist

As Mallarmé
Was wont to say,
Blank paper's pure
As literature.

Picabia's game
Was much the same,
An empty frame.

Beyond that, though,
At peril go.

For you the artist,

Then departest.

Francis Picabia (1879-1953), whose "Dance de Saint-Guy" consists of an empty picture frame.

© Frank Osen