Unreal Wind
Nicholas Waldrop
Painting: St. John's on Tisvilde Beach. / Julius Paulsen, 1886
Unreal Wind
Nicholas Waldrop
Painting: St. John's on Tisvilde Beach. / Julius Paulsen, 1886
On the Palmetto coast were,
A tree swaying in the eternal breeze,
A breeze from which hath no home,
A lonely horseman, galloping alone,
Allured by such gravest majesty,
From what seems an invisible god,
A push and a shove of its own,
A sensation felt upon the skin,
A feeling felt deep within,
From what seems implausible,
An unseen moves the seen,
Accompanied by an unknown home,
Acting, in a mere mortal world,
On such, the horseman believed, the wind was unreal.