Sunrise with Sea Monsters

by James Lindsay 

Was the face intentional, or were you practicing flexing

your pure medium of middle light? The obscure pink swirl

probably depicts fish, speculates The Tate. A sign of scurvy

in a seaside town waiting for the end. In 1906 the National

Gallery gave the incomplete work title and focus. Corporeal

consequence for an optical illusion, atmospheric conditions,

a golden Om interpreted as water because you adored water,

and later, whalers. England was obsessed with sea monsters,

and you were treating a tooth ache with acetate of morphia,

reconnecting the shrapnel of leftover delirium into a Pangea,

momentarily abstracting romanticism to expose a flattened
amber ambience; a frog face hanging in a honeyed diamond.