mucholderthen: THREE LATE PAINTINGS BY TURNERJoseph Mallord…
THREE LATE PAINTINGS BY TURNER
Joseph Mallord William Turner [1775-1851]
Paintings of Haunting AbsenceTurner, Late Painting
This almost empty
canvas
is sister
to an empty page
just as a poem
enters: whitewith all
its possibilities
emerging from the brush—
smoke or cloud
or beach foam—and there in the corner
a patch
of burnt orange
where the sun will
eventually
come up.— Linda Pastan, in Traveling Light
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