Shi to koi to nami to

All day he’d been working like a locomotive.
I mean he was painting,  the brush strokes
coming like clockwork.
Then he called home. And that was that. That was
all she wrote.
Raymond Carver - The painter and the fish

All day he’d been working like a locomotive.

I mean he was painting,  the brush strokes

coming like clockwork.

Then he called home. And that was that. That was

all she wrote.

Raymond Carver - The painter and the fish