Ecotone Duet

Deep in the cove someone passes through the flashing net water tats from sunlight, body a wavering surge rippling along, over-spilling then bending its shifting shape, seen not despite the water but because of it, an image floating within the aqueous oscillation of light slighting then swapping one space for another         yet you cannot tell exactly where flow of blue strummed with blur        the woman is, how deep or far sheerly no definite place        She is not identical with what you see displacement a way of lightening        nor is she contained by the cove her reach eliding loss        On a close stand of pine the water's reflections turning bright loops        she is also there as visiting darkness traveling on, impossible to hold        upon the boughs, then into them finding and releasing        her living movement, her form without figure a radiant flux of the visible