Written by John Chmura
Photography by John Keeley
Off-season renter
at the end of the jetty
her easel teetering
in puffs of chill breeze
chuffing off the prancing
inconstant waves
she studies she paints
her past aloof
incongruous
she is here she is now.
After a week of days
staring at her back
the locals
crabbers and fisher folk
call her aloof
but she’s well past aloof
artist’s eye and brush’s oily tip
critically adrift
at full sail on the horizon line.
Then it is done
and laden with her kit
tiptoeing over driftwood and seagrass
she crab walks the rocks
as the crowd grudgingly parts
to let her go past
aloof
until they see themselves
in full on her canvas
bent over bait buckets
or casting killies
gales of salt mist
in their windswept hair.
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