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The silver net

Chapter 18: ILLUSION
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A sequence of lyrical meditations that shifts between dreamlike visions, confessional solitude, and mythic or biblical reverie. Recurring images of sea and shipwreck, roses and gardens, and masked or legendary figures are used to probe longing, shame, desire, and the hope for spiritual renewal. Poems alternate between dramatic monologue, fable-like sketches, and brief nocturnes, exploring the tensions between illusion and revelation, life and death, and love as both ensnaring and ennobling, producing a compact, contemplative cycle of symbolist-inflected verse.

ILLUSION

The friends throw rice and confetti, wave handkerchiefs, and hail
Love’s triumph, as away the well-appointed brougham hies:
The husband is a man of wealth, and old, and sad, and pale;
The youthful bride has full red lips and mocking violet eyes.