swimming lessons poem #1
I don’t recall how kids 3 and 4 learned
to swim I do have a found scrap from ellie
labeled “courage tests” the list headed
by “swim through seaweed” so she was
swimming before writing but I well recall
kids 1 and 2 – with demi, age 3, we used
the book – she knelt on the dock followed
red cross instruction submerged her face
in the tub of water, blew bubbles, did this
over and over then the next step and next
finally into the water, floating etc., etc.,
by summer’s end she was a swimmer now
comes kid 2 book and tub on dock would
megan blow bubbles? she would have none
of it balked at any instruction finally I said
in exasperation well then swim! and she did.
©2015 Jacqueline Jackson
This article appears in Jan 22-28, 2015.
