Flamingo Friday: A Reflection on Light and Water

Is it an oil painting, an early Monet of flowers in a field or his first attempt at waterlilies?

Is it the image of creatures high above the rippling surface, unaware of the colors they leak like ink into the water?

Or is it the image of something below that surface, shapes rising waveringly out of the depths, from worlds unfathomable, that will someday, as they break through the skin of the pool, come clear?

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