It ended badly:
the sextant smashed,
the rocks rearing,
the storm’s screaming furies,
the ship lashed and wrecked.
Later, an insubstantial watery dawn,
with little trace of those few dark hours:
only some ragged clouds,
a worn-out, ravaged sea,
both sand and sky opaquely mirroring
a troubled calm,
a dog
howling at the crescent moon.
I remember reading this recently at your main blog. I like the way you capture the painting and its story (any reason you don't put the image here, as you did on your main blog?). I saw this painting recently for the first time and was struck by an eerie similarity of feeling conjured up with Goya's "Dog Drowning in Quicksand". Have you ever seen the Goya?
ReplyDeletePerhaps I should reproduce the pic here - and also the pic accompanying 'Yorkshire Dales'. Yes, on reflection, I will do it. I am passionate about Goya but can't recall this particular work, Lorenzo.
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