It was taken some time ago <br />At first it seems to be <br />a smeared <br />print: blurred lines and grey flecks <br />blended with the paper; <br /> <br />then, as you scan <br />it, you can see something in the left-hand corner <br />a thing that is like a branch: part of a tree <br />(balsam or spruce) emerging <br />and, to the right, halfway up <br />what ought to be a gentle <br />slope, a small frame house. <br /> <br />In the background there is a lake, <br />and beyond that, some low hills. <br /> <br />(The photograph was taken <br />the day after I drowned. <br /> <br />I am in the lake, in the center <br />of the picture, just under the surface. <br /> <br />It is difficult to say where <br />precisely, or to say <br />how large or how small I am: <br />the effect of water <br />on light is a distortion. <br /> <br />but if you look long enough <br />eventually <br />you will see me.)<br /><br />Margaret Atwood<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/this-is-a-photograph-of-me/
