The Light of Innocence

The lake: shape of a dress thrown haphazardly onto the ground.

One  evening late, all the people of the village came to divest

 themselves of their sins,  washed them into the lake,

which swallowing , simultaneously caught hold of the sky,

held it in a petrified grasp; sky that never had  a care.

Two swans, two mute glories, some distance apart;

two matches  frozen at the point of flaming  appeared on the water

at the precise moment of the immersion. People say

their plumage shone with unearthly brightness.  It is said in the village

that they appear every time a sinner  divests himself of his sin;

that the light is the light of innocence.