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Reflections On A Clear Night
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Reflections On A Clear Night

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November 3, 2022
Painting of a body of water at night with the moon reflected in its ripples
Moonlight Reflecting On Water, Ivan Aivazovsky, 19th c.

Kris Spencer is a Head Teacher living and working in…

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors

Eugene O’Neill
I stop at the water’s edge to throw a stone into my reflection and look in expecting the world above to also move to see like music the ripples that spread and fade an image better clearer somehow than the real me everything with sharper colours and the moon in the lake passing upside down bouncing and wobbling in the water becoming still again a doubled mirror as I drink in the illusion of light on light and accept its truth this is all that I will ever be
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Kris Spencer is a Head Teacher living and working in London. He is an internationally published writer with poems in journals in the UK, US, Eire, mainland Europe, SE Asia and Australia. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a focus of his work is the sense of place and self which are revealed in small moments and details.

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