Issue 16 – Summer 2009 – Janet Sutherland

Janet Sutherland

Sea level

from one window the castle
from the other      trees
wind in the branches   
marbled light      against grey sky
green earth on gesso  raw umber  white
as if the sea has fallen on us
 
as if the sea has fallen on us
from one window the castle
on its high point
against marbled light    a grey sky
straight lines  to the buttress
where it follows the curve of the hill
 
in marbled light    leaf green
on gesso          waves restless  
flooding through the room
flecked foam  the pitch and heave
from one window or another
the sea is falling on us

 

 

Janet Sutherland’s work has appeared recently in the following: StrideShadowtrainLitterGreat WorksPoetry ReviewShearsmanPoetry Salzburg ReviewThe Rialto, work forthcoming in Poetry Wales and Frogmore Papers.  A collection Burning the Heartwood came out from Shearsman (www.shearsman.com in 2006. She lives in Lewes in the UK.

 

 

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