The silver net

Chapter 25: A RIVER IMPRESSION.

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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.

A RIVER IMPRESSION.

White sails, fair women and a silver swan,

Boats gliding to the cadence of the oars,

With here and there the echo of a song,

And white-clad youths, and the majestic stream

In all its state of golden-spangled motion,

Deep as the silent mystery of a dream,

For ever hastening, hastening to the ocean....