© 2011 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Matisse - The Eel, Etretat [Le Congre, Étretat] 1920
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio: Gift of Ferdinand Howald
1931.063
Landscape, with Eel
(after Matisse)
It is gray the beach
is gray the eel
on the sand
makes a
graceful gray curve
in a wet splash
of earth
tones bronze sienna umber
taupe: beyond the edge the blue
water, the blue-green
water, yellow and white and rose
on its surface
where the light is …
And the dark gray cliffs
across the bay
where the land
rises up – that
strange portal
at the end
opening out
toward what
we cannot imagine
lies beyond
gray
From the book Of Desire & Disorder
BOA Editions, October 2003
Is
In Is, Wayne Dodd continues his on-going search for a poetry able to incorporate the polyphony of our culture's past, while investigating the insights and implications of quantum physics and the motion and fate of our being. At once lyrical, self-mocking, skeptical, and haunted by loss, Is gives us a complex music and tone for our time.
