Sunset, Saturday, 12 September 2009

William Theodore Van Doren. Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

Having spent the day driving through Madison, Culpeper and Rappahannock Counties trying, with dramatic lack of success, to find us a place, I’m left with little to say. Here, then, is something little by definition – a ‘literary’ haiku.

MOBY-DICK

Begin with Ishmael
End with Ishmael and the whale
Typhoon of pages

One more, in honor of house-searching:

WORDSWORTH

Lines composed above
Part of nature that I love
Subdivision rights