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PONTS ARQUÉS
(voices of arkayye, arquious, rkay, arqios)

arkayye
stone curve
  over water’s
    slow breath

a shadow
  folds itself
    into the current

arquious
Here, the arches rise like the spines of leviathans
  long since moored in the river’s memory,
each stone a syllable in the cathedral‑length sentence
  the masons began and the centuries continue,
their mortar the dust of seasons ground fine
  by the patient pestle of rain.

rkay
I walk the span at dusk —
  lights in the windows
    flicker on like small rehearsals for stars.
Below, a barge slides under the middle arch,
  its wake folding the bridge’s reflection
    into a trembling oval.

arqios
O keeper of crossings,
  you bind the living bank to the bank of the gone.
Your arc is the covenant of stone and sky,
  your shadow the script of the river’s vow.
All who pass are written into your curve,
  and all who leave are carried in your echo.    

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