The Paris Review

Griffin Brown

BLACK CURTAIN

after an oil painting by Peter Doig

As is always the case with Doig, we areOutside, this time, is a coast we all know.The view is ideal: the day has reached an end,the water is mostly still, and the moisture in the airmakes every light into a star.

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