Kristen Lindquist

Dreams of Drowning

My ocean swims with lobsters, sharks, seals, boats chugging off into the cold blinding light of dawn. I have leapt off a bridge into the cloying arms of kelp, dissolved with the salt on granite cobbles. I wait, legs scarred by barnacles, limpets clinging to my fingertips, for waves to leap into dolphins’ backs. But the sea never gives anything away.

opening a window
onto distant islands
childhood fears

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About the Author

Kristen Lindquist is a frequent book reviewer for Frogpond and other journals, as well as coordinator for the Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Haibun. Her haiku chapbook It Always Comes Back, winner of the 2020 Snapshot Press eChapbook Award, can be downloaded for free at www.snapshotpress.co.uk/ebooks.htm. You can read her daily haiku blog at www.kristenlindquist.com/blog. She lives in Midcoast Maine.