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Little glimpses of a Future You. 2.
Baie des Millionaires
The sun crests the silhouetted pines and limns the rocks under the clear water of the calm bay.
The full face mask takes in a panorama of pooling fish — feeding on weed, surfing the undertow — busy in unselfconscious certainty in the flickering light.
Floating. Supine. Above
the woman revels in the silent coolness, grateful for a moment of stopped time — a different pressure , a release.
A sudden, too close downward rush of thrusting water and light fracture to the left, panics her into a thrashing scramble for the shore
From where, aeons later, feet on solid rock, she dares to look:
It is a cormorant, diving and bobbing with full beak in a growing patch of silver.
The sun strengthens.
She is no longer welcome here.
