Swimming in Place

Exhausted but dry

By K.B. Silver Published about a year ago • 1 min read

I feel like a pocket sized dog

Held above clear water

Stroking tentatively

Never splashing or

Actively making headway

Every tilting nosedive

Just a laughing taunt

A jape for the supposed

Masters above me

Holding back my

Forward jaunt

K.B. Silver

K.B. Silver has poems published in magazine Wishbone Words, and lit journals: Sheepshead Review, New Note Poetry, Twisted Vine, Avant Appa[achia, Plants and Poetry, recordings in Stanza Cannon, and pieces in Wingless Dreamer anthologies.

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