Labels:book | bulletin board | poster | reckoner | sky | skyscraper OCR: As Spikenard watched Bronwyn slipped the transparent cloak were silver fish in clear water; they were the speed of the fish from her shoulders; fell with whisper. She let her hands drop they were the fish S wake They were semaphores; they were to her sides; she pulled her shoulders back aad stood erect feet meteors apart legs straight This is what he saw: Her spine was a snake. It was the track of snake It was the Bronwyn standing pale and tall in the nervous light that shim- groove the water snake makes in the glossy mud of the riverbank. mered through vibrating canopy of green leaves. The shifting Her spine was viper, an anaconda T was the strength of the bands of milky light and emerald shadow made her seem lumi- anaconda It was the anaconda unknown hieroglyphic Her spine nous, transluc ...