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| Rock Arch West of Eretat (The Manneport) by Claude Monet |
On the Mattapoisett bay rocky shore line, looking out over a concrete runoff, with my Dad and cousins from New York, we are observing electric eels in the water, as a breathtakingly immense storm washes over our feet and stings our eyes, the sky is dark with the most heavy cloud cover I’ve ever seen, and suddenly a plane dips through the sky and crashes careening in smoke as black and thick as the clouds above, and the sea begins to swirl and swarm with fantastic waves that rise above our normal conceptions of the ocean’s storm-driven madness, and we recede further away from shore, a spell of doom cast in the lowered sky
September 4, 2011
Once again, in Massachusetts, I was swimming and found myself right next to a gigantic torpedo ray. It was coming to the shore perhaps to die. I looked up the picture in a book.
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine took a picture of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s suitcase on a beach in Martha's Vineyard after his plane went down.
My father from New York painted a giant oil painting of waves crashing, but re-painted it, in a drunken frenzy, after he moved us to the coast--the real ruined the prior conception.