How Did This Happen? by Mary D. Esselman

Author:Mary D. Esselman [ESSELMAN, MARY D. / ASH VÉLEZ, ELIZABETH]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry / Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Poetry / Women Authors, Self-Help / Aging
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2017-04-04T00:00:00+00:00

the middle-aged woman who has nothing better

to do than swim laps in the Y’s indoor pool

on a late Friday afternoon. I am slow,

though, boring, length after predictable

length of breaststroke or the duller lap

of elementary backstroke perfectly

executed within the taut confines

of the brightly buoyed lane. So she abandons me

to study split-ends, hangnail, wristwatch,

until—the body of the whistle cupped

loosely in her palm—her head nods toward

shallow dreams. I’ve never felt so safe in my life,

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