Fall landscape
Start with a sky wash. Set aside
for six days and nights. Let light
slant on one side, remote hills,
foreground moving water…
Then a bridge — lavish detail
on stonework. Off-centre locate
a dwelling — don’t let it
dominate. Fake windowlight
with blue hatching. Forget
the door, let’s say it’s at
the back, or side. Now
tree-work: troublesome
converging greens; fungal bark
for authenticity. Verisimilitude
is all.
You're tired.
So take a break.
Cycle to the post-box. Chop supper
radishes small. Then the quandary.
Start back with the fine sable. Swallow
some aspirin.
Light up.
A few gull
flicks top right. Time to be bold.
Two figures. One with a demob suitcase.
Another hunched in turned-up collar.
Shiver. Shiver some more.
for six days and nights. Let light
slant on one side, remote hills,
foreground moving water…
Then a bridge — lavish detail
on stonework. Off-centre locate
a dwelling — don’t let it
dominate. Fake windowlight
with blue hatching. Forget
the door, let’s say it’s at
the back, or side. Now
tree-work: troublesome
converging greens; fungal bark
for authenticity. Verisimilitude
is all.
You're tired.
So take a break.
Cycle to the post-box. Chop supper
radishes small. Then the quandary.
Start back with the fine sable. Swallow
some aspirin.
Light up.
A few gull
flicks top right. Time to be bold.
Two figures. One with a demob suitcase.
Another hunched in turned-up collar.
Shiver. Shiver some more.
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