To Write like Cendrars

(For Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961)

By Marcus D. Niski

To write like Cendrars

is to write
with pure clarity
and vision

to write straight and true

with the heart of an arrow

to write like Cendrars
is to be:

burnt alive
by the fire
of writing

[MN] 15 February 2003