Wooden Boy: Seascape

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Cardinal marker, Paignton: photo by Derek Harper, 31 October 2008

.......Torbay:
........a bowl of syrup light

....................From Paignton you can

........watch the warship turn                      

...............................from cartoon vast

.................to smaller seeming

......................a heart contracted
 

.......shade gathered to mass

...evidently marked as

......How lovely is the state

......wherein we're 
......shadowed here

The sea goes from gold
..............to grey to gold again
 ...............
 ..............And always further out
..................(with limitless spread of merewif hair)  .........
 ........forever writhes ecstatically              

Fishblood: Gustav Klimt, 1898, india ink and pen on on brown paper 40 x 43 cm (Galerie St. Etienne, New York)