Excerpt from Only the Swimmer
He can't forget them:
night, the swimmer and the words
Only the swimmer. . . .
Night swims, the swimmer
passes between stars that drop
below the surface
of the words for nightfall,
and the words swim.
Darkening they glide.
After long pauses
they begin again. Only
the swimmer stays down.
(c) 1997 The University of Chicago Press
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