I dreamt I saw an azure sky; blue and vast and stretching up higher than I could reach. I heard the sound of water, waves lapping at an unseen shore, and I dreamt I saw the sea reflected in the sky.

I dreamt I saw my hands, searching their way into the bright blue abyss, palms turned towards me and fingers slowly curving. It seemed as if my hands closed around nothing, but in that nothing there was everything; scattered droplets of sunlight, vibrating waves of sound. Salt and sand and sweat.

My hands hung there, suspended, caught between sea and sky, in a perpetual state of transition. I ask myself, what comes next? Do I exhale, do I release, or do I reach up further and try to catch the dancing waves of light?

I dreamt I saw an azure sky; blue and vast and stretching up higher than I could reach. I heard the sound of water, waves lapping at an unseen shore, and I dreamt I saw the sea reflected in the sky.

Siân Williams 2021

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