Dark Pool
Ripple-skiffed by bird and stone Tree is held in dark-water The flowers fight up.
Christine-Elizabeth Murray
SourceLicence:Public domain
Ripple-skiffed by bird and stone Tree is held in dark-water The flowers fight up.
Three short lines give us a small, shadowy world. The pool is dark, but it isn’t still: birds and stones send ripples across it, lightly as skiffs. A tree appears caught or reflected in that dark water, so its shape belongs both to the air and to the pool.
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