Today was made for the mer-people. Water swirls around my
feet as though it would wish to make a fluid knot and slowly unbalance me; drag
me down into a mermaid's arms. Is it not told that in the rain they come to the
surface and watch us but that all we humans ever see are signs of decaying
ripples left by these aquatic fairies. Expanding circlets of wonder left as
they dive in their silvered robes, flashing long tails of black lined scales. Moreover,
if you could hear them, they sing of the perils of the sea. A long slow lament
of deep water and fading light within bottomless oceans. Though I must confess
I have never seen a mermaid the legends makes their possibility all the more
real; for as science expands it seems only
the mysteries that remain hidden and unexplained are the greatest enchantment
still.
