Especting

                                           …on a large and muddy lake
                           of which much
                              but not enough
                           is known

Pahn has discussed the possibility
                                                                              with someone
of canoeing                                           

to a part of the lake     separated
                               by two     peninsulas
and connected               by
a shallow passage                                                       
where he has never been
                               and despite the doubts
 
                                                     setting out
Pahn finds                                                                                   
the water just deep enough                        
to glide through
to the other
                                side…

…Pahn goes to the town on the other shore
to find a friend
                                     and seek the lakes inlet
                                                   with its neighborhood
                                  of fine hilly homes…

…There is a large house
 
                                                 containing many books
 
              with an odd and distracted
old man
                                         who indicates
that this is

Pahn’s destination