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The silver net

Chapter 2: VISION
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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.

VISION

Great ships, with spreading wings of dazzling white,
I see for ever passing in the night,
Bearing away dead souls
Of men and women, whom I meet each day
Still living in the clay.