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Swimming<br />

Hollie N. Stewart<br />

What is this touch, this w1seen hand<br />

contained like liquid glass<br />

in gas?<br />

J-loly water.<br />

Heaven's vodka. The<br />

embryonic rebirth in a<br />

womb of blue.<br />

1 try ripping the wet, but it<br />

tears my hand, shaping fingers.<br />

[t tickles my guitar nails.<br />

I giggle<br />

as I lose thirty pounds,<br />

and discover how graceful<br />

skin can be.<br />

1 shouldn't be able<br />

to label<br />

silver spirit sensation.<br />

lt glows white inside<br />

through tiny pebbles,<br />

waves, and chipping pa.int<br />

staining my painted toes.<br />

No earth-bound<br />

flesh-bound mind,<br />

no swimmer understands<br />

cool lava. See-through<br />

blood. God's tears.<br />

I close my eyes,<br />

tip horizontal,<br />

trust something larger.<br />

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