Renga Reflection

Lines on softer shapes
Silver on the deepest blue:
Contrails, cirrus: sky

A bird loops slowly westward
Black point on the palest blue

Circles, lines, curves: words
Slow scratchings in a notebook
Meaning without sound

Hands pausing between motions
Eyes rise briefly from the hands

Window and water
Ripples in glass, in a lake
Rain streaks and circles

Progression and rotation
Mind's—and life's—geometries

Illustration by Ryan Armand