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    • Vanishing Shapes
    • The Swim
    • Sometimes...
    • Cocoon
    • The Sum of My Parts
    • Just a Simple Melody
    • Bloom
    • Ids Narda Toomur
    • Dear Maggie
    • The Passenger
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    • Code Blue
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    • The Jacaranda Tree
    • Too Much to Camambert
    • Nanu Nanu
    • Unexpected Love
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The Runaway

February 22, 2017 Emma Brooker

I could stare at that image all day; a woman; a night swimmer barely making a splash as she quietly moves through the water of a hotel pool in LA.

Alone, moving through a sea of murky blue into the thrill of the darkness beyond.

I wonder what she is swimming from and what she is swimming to? I love it so much I am going to have it on my wall one day. At the end of a long hall. Giant, imposing. Knocking my bones when I need it.

She is me. I knew it from the first time I laid eyes on her. Floating.

How I long to take a run-up, followed by a flying leap.

To land within it when things get too much.

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