Skins I wore a wetsuit into the lake sun glinted, elbowing through youthful foliage, neoprene absorbed the blows of water’s rising assault I was braced, mustered: leaving fear on the shore with my dry robe and car keys where it watched me rising proud from wind-fractured water I sought that tidal inhalation, […]
100 words on swimming
Swimming – This weekend, I became one of those women who posts photos of themselves wading into icy water wearing a bobble hat. In the dark, under the fattest, glow-in-the-dark biscuit of a moon, you couldn’t see the goose flesh as the slick cold inched upwards. And upwards. Unbearable, exquisite, until, suddenly… Oh, I can […]