Gustave Caillebotte, Laundry Drying, Petit Gennevilliers (1892),
oil on canvas, 106 x 151 cm, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. WikiArt..png
Squall Line
by Vaughn Neeld
On a stout line, sheets and towels billow full-bellied
as the wind shapes them into half-balloons
that strain against the tight grip of wooden pegs.
Across the blue-gray, wind-ruffled bay,
tree tops whip against a leaden sky.
The feeble sun, braving a lowering sky,
smears a dull-yellow sheen across the roof
of a nearby house–the moment the squall struck
captured in slashing strokes by a master’s brush.
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