circling slow, her mind calm as diamond.
Flawless stone, hard as art itself.
Containing depths of softness when held
in shadow, turning always, facets turning
into darkling light sliding cut gleams over
unfolding volumes inside, into and across
each other, deepening. A mind deepening
within an interlacing array in intersections
of hard and softening light.
She had by just now become distracted again
by her mind. So empty of all but light and shade;
this moment sliding sharp as hints unplayed.
She's peering in again, in time pulling back
from fade into focus. She watched her luck
leave form, take shape through a jeweler's loupe
as a shadowy hawk fell over and fled
up the ground ahead. Flew
like a stain running off
and gone, an illusion caused
by a sunstruck bird outspeeding itself
to make its inscrutably widening round.
Its piercing song. No omen, no augury
this. Pure reason and rhyme in a silhouette blur
of feathering speed, and if you could catch it:
make a wish. She already did.
She unwinds, sinks back from thought. Returning
to self from mind, uncaught but calm as the space
in a diamond's heart, returning all light you uncover
to dance and shine, untaught by an unlearned art.
She's peering in again, in time pulling back
from fade into focus. She watched her luck
leave form, take shape through a jeweler's loupe
as a shadowy hawk fell over and fled
up the ground ahead. Flew
like a stain running off
and gone, an illusion caused
by a sunstruck bird outspeeding itself
to make its inscrutably widening round.
Its piercing song. No omen, no augury
this. Pure reason and rhyme in a silhouette blur
of feathering speed, and if you could catch it:
make a wish. She already did.
She unwinds, sinks back from thought. Returning
to self from mind, uncaught but calm as the space
in a diamond's heart, returning all light you uncover
to dance and shine, untaught by an unlearned art.
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