Overcast

 On a vast expanse of liquid, in 

colossal

ponderous

Protestant canoe stands

stiff and alone

alone as a man can be when he is not on a path to salvation, when 

he is not on a path to salvation

forced through the forbidden passage

hermit of the "Absolute", straight as a wall

inhabited by one Idea

Melancholy,

distress,

fit for the end of the world.

Irreversible fatality 

, heavy monocyclic pirogue sinking slowly

into the dead space

Overcast sky.

One-winged birds.