The bog man

"His two cut off feet were placed neatly beside him, like bedroom slippers aiming to be put on."

*****

 "His reflection there has a watery look, as if a lake bottom with decaying leaves on it is visible in glimpses beneath him, beneath his face and the whiter skin of his torso"

From "Isis in darkness"

" she was like a child sleepwalking along the roof-ledge ten storeys up. He was afraid to call out in warning, in case she should wake, and fall."


*****

 "He did not write poetry any more. Some days he hardly even thought about it. It was like a third arm, a third eye, that had atrophied. He'd been a freak when he'd had it." (Margaret Atwood)