zodiac22 Apr 2004

Some of the punctuation is a little awry. For what it's worth:

His mind withdraws, like the tongue,
too far back to swallow
the water of a lake, green as moss.

'What colour would you prefer,
you must drink' says the tutor.

'make it the pale blue I know as water.'

'but pale blue is the sky;

green is the eye of the sycamore
that looks down on your lake.

Drink, for you can see the fishes.'

Otherwise, ace.