headlong
by Merlin Greaves 


seeking a thin veneer to cover my face clear 
i dipped my head in the water 

it felt cool against my open eyes 
with air thin i did descend 
further into the liquid clear 

i swam slowly as i drifted down 
inviting it all to stay with me 

floating there i felt the whoosh of the air return 
with its stiffness and brash inlets 

i hearing the water drip back down into the pool 
longed for the blankets of warm quietedness

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Copyright © 2003 by Merlin Greaves.

25. Single. Dallas resident. Colorado native. TCU Honors program. BA Psychology, U. Dallas, 2000. Published recently by Kotapress, Paranormal Poets, Poems Niederngasse and Spoken War.

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