A Basket of Snakes

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Snake charmer, Varanasi, India: photo by fredcan, 2006

Beyond the shadow of the ship
..I I watch'd the water-snakes...

When Coleridge "saw" the water snakes

was he having

"The Horrors"? Poisonous coils

of those

notoriously assail

"Poets in their Youth". Later

Despondency

and Madness

allow so much less

free time.

Bapuji & his daughter, Varanasi. India. This sadhu is a Khareshwari Sita Ram Baba (Vishnu devotee) who has already been doing tapasya for over 10 years, that is making a vow to keep standing for 20 years, a mortification of the body to concentrate on the mind: photo by fredcan, 2007