the grey sea

In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without joint and in the luminous space the tanned sails...

--reading the first page of "Heart of Darkness" on the toilet. a centipede runs across the floor. i throw the book down and smash it.

Bas Jan Ader - In Search of the Miraculous

Caspar David Friedrich - Fog (oil on canvas) 1807

Gerhard Richter - Seascape (oil on canvas) 1968

Fairfield Porter - Calm Morning (oil on canvas) 1961

Rebecca Mir - Sea Wall (digital video, 5 min.) 2010 [above: video still]

misshapen sun

Fairfield Porter - Sun on Rough Sea (oil on canvas) 1972

Awoke to streaming rain from a dream, a vision, like a late painting

     of Fairfield's, one of the ones of a misshapen

Sun burning through mist over a sliding morning sea? There is

     only one sky: a pewter plate, easily bent
 

-from The Morning of the Poem, by James Schuyler