Serpent Power, Page 1
Vera Vandendries © [2005]

At the edge of darkness
he handed me an apparatus
shaped as a hexagon
was its lens of pure crystal
it must have been
He placed before me a picture-frame
stretching back so disproportionately strange

Peering into the viewer
releasing the shutter
this is what I have seen

A picture made only of light
with a man, waist-deep
seemingly walking slowly into the deep
deep water he went
until he was seen no more