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This focal point between road and stream,
this parabolic mis en scene
of man and woman 
swimming in a camera's sight, 
above a bridge lit up at night, 
on a surface of reflected light 
shone by arms in shuttered flight, 

moonlight, 
like a clockwork counterweight
shimmers on the swimmers screen,
passing by the twinkling stars, 
which rise and fall
projected in the sky.

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drawn
like Lascaux's lamp lit caves, or video we rewind and play,
pictures move, like nudes in actions painted large, 
celluloid miniatures magnified by beams discharged 
through mirrored reflections of what we are:

(sometimes human, sometimes a human race, 
sometimes  a look of wonder on a child-like face) 

mechanisms turning like clockwork hands
casting the seraphic shadows of a woman and a man,
whose rise and fall we don't quite understand. 

dropping from the sky flowing into the sea, 
on a bridge we wait and see 
them meet. 
in the balanced fulcrum of a heartbeat
above our heads, below our feet... 
swimming.

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"Splash".