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March 4, 2020
‘they’ say that to teach someone how to swim you just throw them in to the deep end they’ll learn
I tried that once by accident at a dead-of-the-winter outing to a local pool I mis-read the marks and jumped right in to an infinity of water (no, it wasn’t infinite but it was just infinite enough it stood so sufficiently between me and air Death considered getting up) even on my birthday my hands didn’t move so fast I must have splashed water inside itself so hard was my dog-paddle up toward salvation and air where bug-eyed and gasping grasping the cold ceramic wall (still bruised) clutching it with all I had left I avoided the colder more permanent wall
no one noticed
and I still hadn’t learned how to swim but I did learn how not to die
Inspired by Mary Oliver’s “The Swimming Lesson” and memories of a suddenly deep swimming pool
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