Seascape

I know this, I know that, and here it is.

Drizzle hazes greens, browns neutral patches,

By levels into grey seas permanent business

Inlet beaches where bit sunlight catches

Prior to blackening clouds. Their white rainfall

Hides the waves the trees the river the road

Water drifting both ways in towers and walls

Toward whitened sea and high hills’ load.

Tinsy leaf glints at window, the rain again,

Window pale-grey pale-blue rivery lines.

Decking’s rings rings rings, as spouts explain

Everywhere’s downward, roads creekbeds with signs.

Else, clears a quarter-hour to white upon blue

Glistening greens in sea and trees rainbow.

Seascape (June)

'Seascape near Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer', 1888.

Visiting Van Gogh, his world as much elation as anguish. Lively and bright is the sea near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on what must be a May or June day in the northern hemisphere. Perfect sailing weather: fairly flat water and good breezes. Someone could go out all day, without a care in the world. In the middle distance a boat, interior red, is going the clappers over deep blue. Same red as his signature lower left. A signature with the flow and curve of the boat, because Vincent’s the boat, racing over blue, forgetting for now family troubles, painting, money, people…