she sees him walking toward her across the sea floor, slow-motion .
the light is blue and shifting it falls in curtains and rays . there are
fish all around, swimming between them like stars, blue and striped and
shiny . he walks like a robot, if he holds her she will hear his engine
running, she can feel nuts and bolts holding his elbows together she says,
Deep Sea Diver I love you with your silence with your dark blue movements
with the world floating away with birth and death in one place
from Mothering by Judith Kerman
Copyright 1978, 1996 by Judith Kerman. Published in book form by
Ridgeway Press as part of Mothering & Dream of Rain, 1996. First
edition published by Uroboros Books/Allegany Mountain Press (1978). Published
as a Storyspace (tm) hypertext in Eastgate Quarterly 2#2 in 1996.
Updated 3/30/99