By the pond, near a line of poplar trees
Is an old man whose brush stroke stills
A shifting sky: pondskaters skim each
Ripple’s wind raised spine: their movements
Mirror his line, his colour as he seeks a wash
Of birdsong, blocked in sunlight,
The silence that precedes
Sudden leaping trout.
Kevin Patrick McCann
Painting William Joseph Schaldach
From Still Pondering https://www.amazon.co.uk/Still-Pondering-Kevin-Patrick-McCann/dp