#1640 - fishing in dark waters

 

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fishing in dark waters

ekphrastic for Karpathy Jenō (Eugen)’s 1939 ‘The Broad Danube’

Hinton Collection, NERAM

 

a mudwash of

two peer into time

 

are thick with such sky

won’t reflect

 

you cannot see the storm here

can’t see much in this mud

 

carp

or such speech

just guessing

 

think paprika

think kettle and fire

 

a curtain you can barely discern

 

river rolls still

drifts away

 

a stick stood up back of the boat

that’s fishing too

 

hardly a shadow cast to it

but tide shows tone

 

a prospect of atrocity

 

everyone had a piece of this

here’s the blood of so many tribes

 

not though here so godforsaken

 

too far from breakfast

too long till lunch

 

a pipe, a flask to share

palinka warms the tale