this time it was the loxahatchee, jacek and i overturned the canoe on a three-foot drop, digital nikon overboard.

( it worked for a minute for a moment.
( the card caught its dying breaths.
( in the beginning, some lacewing eggs followed by a scale insect
( then the clearing with paurotis, cypress, fern ( what might have been
( ( an alligator hole ) )
( then the clearing again
( suddenly:
( the switch: this was the portage route which we ignored
( sondheim soaking, filmed with the dying camera
( ( it seemed alive at that point, the images as usual
( jacek by the canoe, clive and jane by the canoe
( the next image is blurred, green, railing and water
( the camera was dying
( the lens, clouded, electronics shutting down
( ( oh how i worked to retrieve the images! how many hours of
( coaxing them from the card! )
( following, the last retrievable series:
( blue blurs through the ruined lens
( sondheim in mourning and recuperation
( the final image but one, the light
( the final image, the car and its drowned technology

( the madness of the image
( the madness of the light

( madness of the image
( madness of the light