Swimming with Swans by Katrin Talbot
Not always a
question of grace,
endurance
More often, a
song of float
and preen
And you, become
a creature of
palmate,
pass by
as a piece of
lake,
shimmering
Australian-born Katrin Talbot’s Attached: Poetry of Suffix is forthcoming from dancing girl press and she has five other chapbooks, The Blind Lifeguard and Freeze-Dried Love, from Finishing Line Press, The Little Red Poem & noun’d, verb, from dancing girl press, and St. Cecilia’s Daze, from Parallel Press. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, and she has two Pushcart Prize nominations, and quite a few chickens.