Black clouds of an ancient dawning.
Orpheus holds his lyre and dances
in circles on the pond's green layer
of unequivocal algae.

A duck swims in dips head under
and quacks. The god and his lyre
float like a branch
, living in midst
of the pond's muddle.

Black night becomes a blue dawn.
This time there's no breakthrough.
No frog. Not even a splash.


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