AN IMPERFECT MIRROR

In the glow of the afternoon's light
When all eyes look to the west 
To the colors of day's end,
I seek the indirect candor and solemnity of reflection.

The long tide has swept far down the beach.
On the shore’s flat and flooded expanse
Scoured smooth by the gentlest waves,
A fading film of sea water struggles to hold 
The sky's dying light, as it seeps into the sand.

A most imperfect mirror, pocked by 
An ocean's detritus: shells, pebbles, bits of trash.
Yet it casts back an elemental vision 
Dodging out the details, and burning in the 
Grandeur of sun, sky and cliffs, 
All painted onto the crushed stone of mountains, 
and the ground-up mollusks that preceded us 
To this beach by an eternity.

Jonathan Pazer
May 10, 2019

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On plane to England
For my newest picture titled, "An Imperfect Mirror"
An image of Caspar Beach reflected in the sand, with a reverse and overlaid image of the same picture above it.

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