Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

I’m not done with the Abyssinian Maid yet, but I’m starting on another painting for the Kubla Khan book, and just finished roughing it out. I’m sure it will still change significantly but this is the foundation it’s being built upon. This is for the part of the poem that goes (in bold),

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

If you’re wondering about the skulls, this is from later in the poem;

Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:

So, of course, it’s a dead underground sea fed by the sacred river Alph.