the boats
        to illustrate
the drift of light, shifting
                                   clouds

             a line of the three, a curve
    is more the imagination
       a slight curve a number
                to settle men, compact
                          there are two in the first, heel

                                           point of obliqueness

          one sitting one standing
                with its shadows, another descent

                  a different cast motion
                          complex we can
                   savor it, coming
                      —in not much time to
                                brushstrokes

                                        in water