Block Island Winter

Thin veneer of

Interior Landscape #34: Albert Bierstadt

Puget Sound on the Pacific

Encroaching clouds are a veil,

smothering waves swept to a fury,

fishermen driven landward in skiffs

gather their equipment, store boats

upshore, secure against encroachment

of storm. a blackness darker than weather.

Edward Munch: The Seine at St. Cloud 1890

The effect

of moon

light

on the Seine

sorrow;

darkness

a tide