James Yeary

TRINE IMMERSION

I'm sure he'd bathe if he could. If his skin is as dirty as he 
thinks it is, imagine what's happening under the surface. 
Smelling epsom salt remember everything. You can hear 
the conversation of bacterial socialites bursting in soap 
bubbles.

She'd like to go swimming (if she could). The river is 
coming from a mile back up the mountain, at a foot deep, 
thirty degrees this way or that way, Celsius or phantom 
grade. The water at the top moves along faster than 
anything it catches, which gets pulled under the surface 
and stops.

I'll drown if I need to. That's the way that it works. I'll 
drown if I have to! It's not what I want. That's not what it's 
about. All things are afraid of the difference between 
them: invisible, original, and enveloping.