14 July 2023

Mermaids

Mermaids hide in eye-shaped pools.

See them as they drift and dart!

In light and shadow, sage and fool,

The mermaids dwell and sometimes start

To sing some silent harmony.

Their music's bright. Each lilting note

Puts miles between all harm and me.

I see them swim in each fleck and mote

That drifts and lingers, or sometimes sinks

In eyes whose darkness blackens blinks

And swallows up the part that thinks

And leaves behind no shining prick

Of light in which the mermaids swim.

Still waters deep spill o'er the rim.

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