"The Fisherman and the Siren"

"Heaving sea of iridescent blue and green,
a cold moon, and slippery rocks,
from which a mermaid siren,
glittering, mysterious, alluring,
winding their white arms
about the young fisher-lad,
was dragging him down, down,
into the depths below of white lacing foam."



Inspired by Howard Pyle's "The Mermaid" (1910) and Frederic Leighton's "The Fisherman and the Syren" (1856).