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The silver net

Chapter 36: SHADOWS
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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.

SHADOWS

From the towering opal globes, in the street, the crude white light streams down
On him, blue-eyed, on her, with hair like a flaming golden crown:
His cigarette glows to a crimson star as he slowly paces,
While, beside him, the woman smiling, shivers in her silks and laces.