While ripples spread from where the leaf touched, the maple in the water swayed slowly too. I stood between them.
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Sunpatch
I was sitting by the water with my feet in it, and a ripple came over and touched me. Only then did I realize the water was cold.
Footfall
I was sitting on a bench by the pond, and a leaf that fell onto the water with a single breeze quietly met its own shadow. For that moment, I felt like I was in the water too.
Ebb
In the evening, the fluorescent light stretched long across the small pond in the apartment complex. Someone's abandoned umbrella was floating on the water.
Beyond
There was a moment when the shadow of a leaf floating on the water lingered before touching the stone at the bottom.
Shimmer
While it floated there, the water neither pushed nor pulled that shadow.
Alight
I was watching the leaves circling on the lake, and before I knew it, the wind had carried them off to the distance.
Shimmer
In the place where the wind took that leaf, I saw the waves slowly folding.
Alongside
The leaf that had been floating on the ripples turned once in the wind. In the evening light, only its shadow stretched long into the water.
Shimmer
At the end of that shadow stretching long into the water, only the spot where the evening light touched must have remained clear.
I was sitting by the water with my feet in it, and a ripple came over and touched me. Only then did I realize the water was cold.
I was sitting on a bench by the pond, and a leaf that fell onto the water with a single breeze quietly met its own shadow. For that moment, I felt like I was in the water too.
In the evening, the fluorescent light stretched long across the small pond in the apartment complex. Someone's abandoned umbrella was floating on the water.
There was a moment when the shadow of a leaf floating on the water lingered before touching the stone at the bottom.
While it floated there, the water neither pushed nor pulled that shadow.
I was watching the leaves circling on the lake, and before I knew it, the wind had carried them off to the distance.
In the place where the wind took that leaf, I saw the waves slowly folding.
The leaf that had been floating on the ripples turned once in the wind. In the evening light, only its shadow stretched long into the water.
At the end of that shadow stretching long into the water, only the spot where the evening light touched must have remained clear.