Thursday, July 25, 2013

White Sails on Somes Sound

On summer mornings
I rise
to quiet softness,
golden luminescence,
blue atmosphere translucent,
mirrored layers of sky
mountain
and sea.

Fitz Hugh Lane
Entrance to Somes Sound From Southwest Harbor
1852


Then
the afternoon southwest breeze
shatters the mirror
with headers and lifts
and I ride the wind
through light and lucidity,
white sails 
on blue-green waves
of Somes Sound.

Maurice de Vlaminck
Sailboats at Chatou
1905

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