Surrounded by water, awash with light, at time
dancing with diamonds, at others, looking as if
black ice glittered near its surface, I spent a
summer enthralled with the constancy-and
constant change. Diamonds pinpricked patterns of
light, like moving abstracts, caught in ripples of sun
and heat. Neptune ’s tides lured me to capture and
record their beauties-like varied, precious gems
women lust after. Remote from materialism.
Nature’s luxuries.