10.28.2026 – strange light sun made

strange light sun made
in the water meant good weather
so did the clouds shape

Adapted from:

The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it.

The water was a dark blue now, so dark that it was almost purple.

As he looked down into it he saw the red sifting of the plankton in the dark water and the strange light the sun made now.

He watched his lines to see them go straight down out of sight into the water and he was happy to see so much plankton because it meant fish.

The strange light the sun made in the water, now that the sun was higher, meant good weather and so did the shape of the clouds over the land.

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952).