His God Was Sun!

Another Seascape with Storm Coming On

‘The sun is God’ – JMW Turner

 

 

January and deepest winter.

Turner’s in the sky at Acco. 

Scowling!

Four o’clock.

An evil hour and the sun

a bruised, ill-tempered god

disrobes deep in one sunken cheek

of the black-faced sky.

 

The waters rise:

Wave upon desperate wave,

each thirsting for some scrap

of inland warmth, soars, lunges,

claws in vain at ancient harbour walls

grand enough to sneer, implacable,

teasing the tossing torrent into ebb.

Hip first.

 

A trifling dusk.

All’s swept away save one

lone angler who braced with

rod, line and lantern, scarcely leans,

takes an expert pause, hooking

an unwary, silvered slip for tea.

 

It’s over.

A wild and wretched day now trapped

in night, queues to be reeled into eternity.

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© Natalie Wood (27 July 2015)