Plenty More Fish in the Sea
I want to shake her when she surfaces, coughing, my whole body shakes when she dives again exhaling yes like they will give her breath I say no as if I could slow her fall. She dives as if the goal is to reach the ocean floor and each time I try to say beware. But down she dives to promises of oxygen expecting their breath, because she offers hers, down to sting rays who appear no threat from above, down to those who are interested as long as it’s convenient, down past comfort to a murkiness my eyes can’t penetrate. No, no, better by far here in the cold salty air, just you against the sky sometimes even upping the courage to snorkel, gazing at the colours playing far off below. I watch her submerge Because I can’t picture ever being offered breath, or truths, or anything, really. And because I know, or I believe, and I can’t disprove, that this fish’s heart only has one fall in it.by Rosie S.
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