about the author
Rose Hunter’s writing can be found at her blog, Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have to Take Me Home. She is also
the editor of an online poetry journal, YB. She is from Australia originally, lived in Canada for many years, and
now lives in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
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swimming
Rose Hunter
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too much, this idea of swimming
and how it is you don’t forget
how. Must be some
confidence trick
to look down there, if you could
would give you vertigo
a green flash sunset, or how
I plucked that out of the circus
repertoire, really? Time to forgive that
our history isn’t all
I don’t believe, but we are
imbued with it.
Seen from below
we must be like
green lightning
flashes but then stays on
too long