Kit Kelen #483 - Courbet's 'The Diligence in the Snow'

483

Courbet's 'The Diligence in the Snow' (1860)

(The Hugh Lane – Dublin City Gallery)

a drift as at sea

where the pines stand, roof through

one horse rears

and the little one, ox back

might be in prayer

but is probably warming his hands

fat chance!

houses are drowning

bare limbs of the last bush to go under

fierce wind the pines point

and their coats shake down

the coach is bearing a burden of snow

there's dark under

there's dark above

in lines as far as the eye will go

you could go down

with the light falling

and pass beyond the cold

there's one dives as if the wave could be ridden

there's another who's like an artist

brush for measure

and grandma tags along

we slide

we right ourselves to see

we see far into the wave

we're borne

as in a drift at sea