#1643 - a boater bigger than the boy

 

1643

5.182

1.vii.24

a boater bigger than the boy

ekphrastic for Arthur Streeton’s ‘Morning Sketch – McMahon’s Point Ferry’

Hinton Collection, NERAM

 

 

a windswept green

red dress puffs up

 

no iron span or ferris wheel

 

all this blue and one above paler

 

stark light and geometry

one must imagine a sun

 

is home still far in the waves beyond?

 

we cannot remember what will come

 

though not the chimney season

there is wake of a vessel’s purpose

funnel’s worth of harbour

 

things present

things soon gone

 

ghosts of the future loom

 

the day as fresh as paint

for all that

there’s a flourish where we sign