Aligning in broken weather

Low light moves across a broad, slate sea, its surface crowded by a school of herring shifting as one mass beneath quickening gusts. The water is unrested—a pattern of rolling tension and slack, windspun ripples in pale slate and clouded gray-green. Above, gull silhouettes rise and dip, their flight not resisting the turbulence but moving within it, holding their place in the shifting air. Movement eddies, re-aligns, releases. In this shifting, steadiness is found not by opposition but through loosened synchrony, riding adjustment within the restless field.