In the Failing Lights

 

                                                                                                      Author Mariusz Guć

Image: Visions and Shadows

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to include the following lines in the prose:

." . . and the iridescent image swims through a mirror that flows.” 
 -  Stanley Kunitz (The Atlantic, 1970)

Iridescent means: showing bright colours that seem 

to change when you move or look from a different angle.

Failing lights accompanied the rocking of the boat. 

Reserve a thought for what was in store in the morning. 

One felt the concern even the guilt for not coming 

back with a decent decision and the "iridescent image 

swims through a mirror that flows".

It appeared better from the other side and then the 

other depending on the movement of the sun earlier

Was it with full abandon to just raise both hands 

and prepare to give up.

Many had walked this path. Many were familiar with the

underlying frustrations of not being satisfied with the ones

done lately. Time constraints could not be the reason. It was

perhaps to throw everything to the winds and to see what

was giving way. Building walls around one's options would

not get the desired results. It stifled growth and that was

not good at all!

Dora at d'Verse's Prosery—Luminous Accounting