Swimming in Ballet slippers
" Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up."
- Pearl Buck
the evening's sky settled in like a toddler belly flopping in the shallow end of the pool..
the swimming teacher gave up on this wild child. -- whose resistance to learning how to swim made her prey
to gazing at seagulls and butterflies... skimming over the blue chlorine scented pool--in a neighborhood where everyone had them
floating on her back, she prayed for her turquoise stingray spinning on the dead-end black top block, and her ballet slippers sweeping a hard wood floor--
sweet chopin playing waltzes-- as she would dance in threes--
never a care for pop up fires or leaks, leading to floods-- within the spooky rambling ballet studio
she later learned to be a little guppy fish--in an ocean of stars, dancing
on the surface of the wavering waters
- kate lamberg (c)'18
- Pearl Buck
the evening's sky settled in like a toddler belly flopping in the shallow end of the pool..
the swimming teacher gave up on this wild child. -- whose resistance to learning how to swim made her prey
to gazing at seagulls and butterflies... skimming over the blue chlorine scented pool--in a neighborhood where everyone had them
floating on her back, she prayed for her turquoise stingray spinning on the dead-end black top block, and her ballet slippers sweeping a hard wood floor--
sweet chopin playing waltzes-- as she would dance in threes--
never a care for pop up fires or leaks, leading to floods-- within the spooky rambling ballet studio
she later learned to be a little guppy fish--in an ocean of stars, dancing
on the surface of the wavering waters
- kate lamberg (c)'18
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