better than both

better than both

The good ship ‘Happy Hour’ waiting for the happy cats to sail it away!

this morning
the estuary was
monet
cezanne
and better
than both its
gloss and
dabs of
shadow
were,
not ‘as
they were’
the sky
a living
cerulean
blue not
ground in
any workshop
ever

tamaki estuary
morning, 9 may 2016

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The music is from Franz Liszt’s ‘Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude’, interpreted here by Stephen Hough.