Saturday, 12 June 2021

A Poem a Day (439): Woman in water

 

Woman in water

A woman lies on water
in suspended animation,
bubbles of breath blow,
the sea her bed now.
 
In this tranquil repose
her white clothes stream,
arms and feet relaxed,
headrest water’s brow.
 
Hair sweeps like seaweed.
She treads as though
gravity does not exist,
fingers caress cool flow.
 
She is one in dreaming,
the forgetting here is slow,
life on an even keel
where the trees hum silent.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, June 12, 2021


Image: woman in water by Toni Frissell. On Vintagephotoarchive.

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