Lake transformed from ice or volcano had not appeared then disappeared in immemorial cycle for a human in the same water billions of larvae at the surface of the water endless wings in the water a foundry of billions of scales in multiple species never equal according to thirst according to hunger I lost myself as a child in those reeds then I swam across it as a challenge I smashed the delays the bans and the secrets and learnt to spin around in a vacuum in lakeside time the two of us lived in a time of marshes we went our ways.