Dipper Lake glitters today family SUVs disgorge, sunglasses hunted factor 40 but you know snow-melt currents surge beneath the ducks and under stand-up paddleboarders. Meet shingle, rock, slime. Ankles, shins, thighs astonished by biting surface outraged as you wade on, furious with rock, slime, weeds. Breathe. Kick. Pull. Acknowledge the persistence of life send bubbles […]
Skins – 100 words
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, […]
Daffodil
Daffodil I am a member of that host here by the bay from flinty, frosty shudders to the weary wilt of season’s end. On parade in my egg-yolk crown, fluttering, dipping alone in this crowd. Breeze blasts cruel tempo and pushes me: I’m on my knees then twitch again to still. That bitter loath-ed wind, […]
