You stand on iron where the Herengracht bends
Fog clings to Taxus baccata crowns
Your projector hums a steady lens
Light cuts through vapor white on brick and ground
You count the frames like rhizome nodes in soil
Each flicker measured patient worth the toil
The canal breathes beneath your boot soles
A silent rhythm calibrated whole
Projectionist you hold the winter reel
Fog drinks the light but you make darkness heal
Bridge keeps its secrets locked in steel and peat
You watch the water steady discrete complete
You thread the gate with fingers stained by loam
Sphagnum moss recalls a colder home
The shutter clicks a metronome of bone
Each frame a seed in darkness carefully sown
You measure time in growth rings not in hours
The fog lifts slow as dormancy flowers
Your beam traces arches stone by stone
A silent language spoken known your own
Projectionist you hold the winter reel
Fog drinks the light but you make darkness heal
Bridge keeps its secrets locked in steel and peat
You watch the water steady discrete complete
You see the elms stand bare as anatomy
Ulmus minor rooted in the clay
The film burns bright a brief geometry
Then ash and silver fade to gray decay
Projectionist you hold the winter reel
Fog drinks the light but you make darkness heal
Bridge keeps its secrets locked in steel and peat
You watch the water steady discrete complete
You feed the take up reel with practiced grace
Mycelium threads beneath the canal base
The light throws shadows precise in time and space
No audience just water stone and haze
Projectionist you hold the winter reel
Fog drinks the light but you make darkness heal
Bridge keeps its secrets locked in steel and peat
You watch the water steady discrete complete
You splice the end frame clean and absolute
Quercus robur drinks the morning dew
The fog dissolves a slow and quiet route
You pack the lens the bridge keeps watch with you
Projectionist you hold the winter reel
Fog drinks the light but you make darkness heal
Bridge keeps its secrets locked in steel and peat
You watch the water steady discrete complete
Iron roots hold fast in winter soil
Projectionist you coil the final spool