Marathe and Steeply: the soup — "also pigeons, and ducks with tight…"
also pigeons, and ducks with tight emerald heads gliding in circles, their eyes round stones, moving as if without effort, gliding upon the water as if legless below.
Context
The night dialogue's ambient rings: a bonfire burning as a ring, Marathe's habitual rotary gesture, and his Public Garden reverie of ducks gliding in circles.