{"id":9932,"date":"2022-02-15T22:13:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T22:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=9932"},"modified":"2022-02-15T22:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T22:22:19","slug":"the-fighting-temeraire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/15\/the-fighting-temeraire-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fighting Temeraire"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do like Sunday morning Anna as we can laze about in bed and do absolutely nothing\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I love your room as the sun starts on one wall and travels to the other each day<\/em><\/p>\n

I love the prints you have attached to your\u00a0 white plaster walls<\/em><\/p>\n

Anna looked around and saw that Anna had dozed off in the morning sunlight<\/p>\n

She took care not to wake her love and began to tiptoe around the room<\/p>\n

Anna had completed this ritual many times before for no particular reason<\/p>\n

She always stopped in front of the print of Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire<\/p>\n

It was her favourite painting but it also troubled her as there was something hidden<\/p>\n

She had asked Anna many times as Anna was a lecturer in Art History<\/p>\n

But she was always teased and told to work it out for herself<\/p>\n

Its the sun Anna it is in the wrong place do you not see that\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

No not really\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The magnificent ship is being towed towards London so in theory we are looking east\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Where does the sun set\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In the west\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

We are not looking in a westerly direction\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I see\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Wherever you are in both hemispheres the sun will always rise in the east and set in the west\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The same can be said of the moon and the stars as the earth spins towards the east<\/em><\/p>\n

But why did the artist place it there when he knew it to be wrong\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Anna received no answer and turned towards Anna who she supposed to be awake<\/p>\n

But her friend was still asleep<\/p>\n

There was nobody else in the room<\/p>\n

For an instant she felt nervous as she was naked<\/p>\n

I wanted it to represent the madness of the world\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A great ship a veteran of many battles being let to her death\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Under a cold thin sky whilst the sun burns like a raging fire\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh the stupidity of man\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Although the day promised to be warm Anna felt chilled and joined Anna in her bed<\/p>\n

She kissed her lightly on her forehead<\/p>\n

I now understand the painting fully Anna\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

That is good as I knew that he would visit you<\/em><\/p>\n

I had asked him to do so on many occasions<\/em><\/p>\n

Shall we go back to sleep now<\/em><\/p>\n

As the day is young\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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I do like Sunday morning Anna as we can laze about in bed and do absolutely nothing\u00a0 I love your room as the sun starts on one wall and travels to the other each day I love the prints you have attached to your\u00a0 white plaster walls Anna looked around and saw that Anna had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9935,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions\/9935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}