I wanted a poetic structure that would fit this simple but compelling composition. I decided on a series of haiku that combine the sky, the ocean, the shore and the wagon in a brief story about hope and hardship. Or consider each haiku on its own merit! I found inspiration in Richard Wright’s This Other World and William Carlos Williams’ The Red Wheelbarrow. I took this photograph on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
I
A Red Green wagon
Rests upon this lonely shore,
Waiting for the storm.
II
Coming to this land
With the guidance of his hand;
Home under the Skye.
III
This wagon once hauled
All that my life could carry,
To this vacant shore.
IV
The storm is coming,
My wagon awaits the rain;
A silent watchman.
V
Far from the city,
Sits a wagon with Red wheels,
By the ocean sky.