pour on water

tales of Laura

For Fear of Drowning

Pushing off from the side she crashes into the water, eyes squeezed shut. Letting herself fall as far as she can her shorts billow out like clouds and her t-shirt hovers around her neck, the diamond necklace caught in its folds. Opening her eyes she looks up and out at the sky, flecked with cloud and swaying gently with the surface of the water. She lies for a few moments suspended, clothes twisting around her. She tries to pull down to sit on the bottom but is running out of breath and, kicking hard, swims back to the top.