A silver pool

Chapter 2: INSPIRATION

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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.

TO CONGDON

INSPIRATION

I bridled my soul in its temple,

Waiting a while,

Till I knew the peace of a tempered touch,

And changeless smile.

Then I made my heart a silver pool

Of melody,

And stars came down from the sky at night

And bathed in me.