LAKE/SKY
an homage to Mark Rothko
Photographs by Peter Sorel Poems by D.E. Green
On the cover: Before sunrise, 2012
LAKE/SKY
an homage to Mark Rothko
Twentyone views of Lake Michigan and the sky above
Photographs by Peter Sorel Poems by D.E. Green
August 2, 6pm
Under a dark slate sky above black waters the end of the world a blazing horizon
Aurora I.
Faintest blue whispers bleed Yellow, orange. Rose, rose, pink rose. We fall through pale blue, then bluer, And level at unpolished steel.
January 31, 9am
Ice, ice, ice, ice. Gray winter groans under suffused white light. No color nor possibility of spring.
Aurora III.
Thoughts pass like dark clouds across the red dawn of the mind: Their shadows deepen the blue surface.
Aurora XII..
The jetty confines me to the dampened shore far from Aurora’s glowing castle in the clouds.
Untitled
A horizontal bisects a plane—sea and sky: Earth’s geometry.
Blue ice, 2011
mist light cloud mist cloud light mist rose risen pink streaks risen rose ice bluest bluer blue ice blue ice blue
Daybreak, August 2013
When the dawn strikes a stray cloud salmon-red, The blues and blacks of my sky and my sea Flow out toward you—always beyond reach.
Early winter morning, fog, 2012
Rose tints dawn’s blue horizon. A ribbon of white light illuminates green waters. And then—the thought of you.
Getting cold, 2012
Winter’s not hopeless: Ice melts. We will swim To the jetty. The waters Will blue, the sky brighten.
July evening, 2010
Sapphire world: aqueous opacity beneath pastel-soft skies. Between— a ruby line glows, wavers, and subsides.
Midsummer morning, 2012
Warming in the yellowing sun One cool blue stripe A distant violet haze Chicago unseen behind us
Morning storm, March, 2012
Behind lowering clouds—a breath of light blues the distant sky. There onyx waters touch a luminous horizon.
May 9, 6pm
A swirling lapis sky—a hint of rose— two parallel streaks—of turquoise— we ride—the surface—of our lives
Morning light, 2011
Why is life always over there beyond the near blue boundary? Move out, out toward the horizon— lilac ad fuschia melting skyward.
Not yet 6am, April 21, 2011
Out of darkness and the deep Rose light, rose orange light Wisps across the bluing sky
Stormy afternoon, April 19, 2013
Irradiant liquid green grades to solid blue against sfumato sky.
Sunrise, summer, gulls, 2013
Sunrise rainbow—gulls on the jetty Now—she turns to him Let us begin the day
Sunrise, fog, summer morning, 2013
A palette of fog and mist suffused light窶馬o horizon the lines have disappeared
The blues...2012
Despite white light and blue skies The hard edges of your moods Stripe the approaching seas: Opaque teal, stippled steel-blue.
Winter, 2014
Between us—islands of frozen white the green bar of chill water and the blue beyond reach
PETER SOREL is a photographer in Chicago. He is represented by Arica Hilton at Hilton/Asmus Contemporary. D.E. GREEN has taught literature and writing at Augsburg College in Minneapolis since 1988.
www.petersorel.com