A silver pool

Chapter 17: CAMEO

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The volume gathers short, lyrical poems that move between intimate confession and vivid, travel-tinted scenes, often using sea, desert, and carnival imagery to evoke longing and desire. Many pieces treat love, loss, and memory with devotional or elegiac tones, transforming personal feeling into music and visual metaphor. Occasional persona poems and translated voice-poems recall distant cultures and theatrical figures, while recurring motifs—stars, fires, pools, and painted streets—anchor the collection’s contemplative mood.

CAMEO

A little room, a dream-lit hearth,

Rosemary in a bowl of jade;

Budding orchard, thrush’s song,

A golden morning, dappled shade.

A steel-blue sea, the wind’s high will,

A red sun dropping down the sky,

Purple shadows on the dunes,

Upon the road, just you and I.