Untitled - ScholarWorks Home - California State University, Northridge
Untitled - ScholarWorks Home - California State University, Northridge
Untitled - ScholarWorks Home - California State University, Northridge
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
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 />
68