Loitering
Monet’s Water Lilies
Bainbridge Island Press Ekphrastic Challenge: What is being reflected on the surface? Is there a world beneath the surface? Is the surface disturbed? Have you touched the surface? Can the surface be observed, objectively? Describe the moment when the surface changed.
Loitering
Still.
Humus wafting perfume
Warmed pond lilies
open to sun
Insects hover, dart
Koi loiter in the dark
tucked under rocks
waiting
Dragonfly nymphs
alight
Pond’s bright skin
erupts splashes, droplets
Lilies sway, their feet
rooted in ooze
Nymphs become Koi