Idiot Dog

Green Man Shadow

out at Seapoint Beach, Preserve Point, Kittery Beach, ME

Meeting Charles in Portsmouth

Quadraped

Author Photo

Body Map

Cape Cod (Piece)

Avery, in HIs Element

snap by Emilie Manhart

Woman in Hat, at Railing

You know her the way you know all women
in Hopper’s paintings. You rendezvous

in the territory of imagination: shifting landscape
of streets and oceans, walks and whale watches:

agreeing to meet on that side route, this ride out.
You can’t capture her face, just a suggestion

of shoulder, its shy bra-strap smile. You don’t
catch up with her, no need to follow after;

good enough to spy her in the café mirror or
here at ship’s railing. Hat always on her lovely head,

gaze focused off into the distance. For she too
has her version of this: this aching for what lies

just outside the realm of the camera’s gaze.

from Old Ballard