Victoria Anderson | “Swimming Lesson”
The day I was scheduled to be buoyant
I entered the cloudy water
and the murk suited me so I reclined
and then as if someone had placed a hand
under the lumbar curve of my spine
I lifted my arms into a “T”
and that was the beginning of my float
which took me some distance
and had beauty like all things engineered
and I was all cooperation so the day cooperated
and the water molecules lavished
me with cooperation
and all this happened while you were not there
like many unwitnessed acts it felt holy
unrecorded but sung
Listen to Victoria read “Swimming Lesson” here
Published in The Cortland Review