Poet Laundry: Monet

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Claude Monet The Studio Boat (1876). Public Domain image.

Hush, the lantern is burning low;

the air is crisp and sweet

on this, our orchard, son.

In the cradle of the river,

before your leaves are changing palette,

before my winter comes—

remember these: my velvet whisper,

and your dreams of green,

when my floating here is done.

The ship with orange sails

stands out among the rest.

Perhaps whoever chose them

wanted them to match their destination—

the horizon, or a harvest of sunsets

always ending, like we were.

Cinder, smoke, ashes. Storm jibs

in a haze of primrose promises

clutched like a fading pulse—

a final tremor against the bright, dying sun.