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Swan Dive by Maia von Maltzahn

Maia von Maltzahn

It’s the kind of hotafternoon in Augustwhere the sun cracksyour mouth openso you can takea big gulp oflife
Chin tuckedwind-up lanky-limbsbare brownedshoulders humin the heatrunning warmwooden dockbeneath your feet, stepone, two, and
Leap…
gravitygreetsyou
like a pinky-promisein the lakewater answerswith a laughing splash
you elegant creaturehere, you belong.

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