Watching the Breakers by Winslow Homer

Watching the Breakers

Marguerite Floyd
Nov 3 · 1 min read

ekphrasis of Watching the Breakers by Winslow Homer

It was a night like this, she remembered, when Edwin’s ship crashed and broke into a thousand pieces on the shore. It had happened so suddenly and so silently she had mistaken the collision for a clasp of thunder. It had been the crack of lightning that showed the terrible scene. She saw it still.

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Marguerite Floyd

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writer, editor, poet, parrot person, author of four books (available on Amazon, of course)

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