Learn to Swim
Can you learn to swim from books?
I’ve never heard of it
In the newspaper clipping I am a child
Absolutely wailing in my water wings
I could never get the breathing right
I panic like Peter and sink
Under the weight of my own anxiety
Lead chain heavyweight sea bottom worry
What comes next?
The past, out of frame
The dock shrinking
Plank by plank
The sea ahead
Massive mystery
The only way you
Learn to swim is
Swim to learn
I myself am not a natural