{"id":38,"date":"2014-10-20T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsfromarevolution.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/20\/swedish-lake\/"},"modified":"2014-10-20T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T20:47:00","slug":"swedish-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsfromarevolution.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/20\/swedish-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"SWEDISH LAKE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I dive, shivering.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The lake locks behind me.<\/span><\/span>
Water\u2019s indifference swarms.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I am a hollow reed falling<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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to where there is no wreckage.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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In the bunched black, <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I am too deep to hook,    <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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cleaving water like a prophet.,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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A child crawls in my ear. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Does anyone know I\u2019ve gone?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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My hair flails –  a creel of eels, a terrible nest.  <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I am Medusa turned to  stone, sinking. I cannot look back. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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M<\/span>y heart, a howling mob of blood, cannot save  me now.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The lake holds me down with weedy fingers,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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 until the mouth is breached,  the skin bowl floods,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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 pours  libation for the  fleshless drowned.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I kick and  turn, scuff the mud,  and in the wake,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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my old self sinks,  an ancient plague settling.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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My eyes lift, migrating beyond shadows. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Something shines, <\/span>a stellar corpse<\/span>.   <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I am at the threshold, carrying a bride, <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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milky white, as light as a fledgling. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Water is torn as easily as silk.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I am breaking through, <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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birthing myself, <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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a molecular evolution,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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grasping air as if it were a trapeze.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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My hands strike the water.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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An infant moon fragments. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Voices call  from the jetty.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Below the surface, I am nameless.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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                           <\/span><\/span>More of my poems in http:\/\/www.warscapes.com\/poetry\/not-revolution, <\/span>
http:\/\/ www.rowayat.com (new Egyptin literary magazine in print)<\/span>, http:\/\/www.chanticleer-press.com<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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I dive, shivering. The lake locks behind me.Water\u2019s indifference swarms. I am a hollow reed…<\/p>\n

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