Alfred Wallis Ekphrasis

2013-10-23 19.54.10
The first two sentences of the poem are the painting’s title. Wallis was a Cornish ‘outsider’ artist and fisherman who painted these wonderful, flatly distributed landscapes; I saw the real thing at the Ulster Museum, Belfast.

 

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