The Drowning Dog-Francisco Goya

                                                   "The Drowning Dog" by Francisco Goya

Painted directly onto one of the walls of his house "The Dog" is one of many dark paintings by Spanish Artist Francisco Goya.The art now sits in the Museo del Prado,Madrid.A link to the online gallery is here

Off chains
turning inside the sadness
of walls staring at each
other,across an alley
where the language mute ,
and the listeners too far
from a drowning dog,
and the sea that pets him to sleep