The Upside Down Sea

(This is a poem I wrote after seeing the painting Rain in August, Platte Valley (2005) by Keith Jacobshagen - I have inserted a picture of one of his other paintings: Power Station, Missouri Valley, Near Hamburg (2002))


Out a window we see
a vast upside-down sea.
The blue with white cotton candy
floats atop broken verdigris.

This window frames the reality
that we know from our nativity.
The ground that we work and know
is only a fraction of the ocean below
and when on the plain we see,
upside down, above the ground, a sea.