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Short Flights

Chapter 23: AN UNWRITTEN LETTER.
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The collection gathers short lyrical poems and sonnets that meditate on seasonal change, love and its vicissitudes, friendship and parting, aspiration and disappointment, and quiet domestic and natural scenes. Many pieces favor intimate first-person reflection, blending pastoral imagery—gardens, birds, waves, and twilight—with moral and spiritual concerns about faith, striving, and memory. Varied short forms, occasional rondeau and sonnet sequences, produce compact musicality and a tone alternating between wistfulness and gentle affirmation, while recurring motifs of journey, secret longing, and consolation knit the individual lyrics into a unified contemplative arc.

AN UNWRITTEN LETTER.

SHE wrote a letter with her eyes,

Well-filled with words of bliss;
Then, like a prudent maid and wise,
She sealed it with a kiss.