Vowel Movement
Lara Bausten
Anyway, picture me in waders:
fishing pants, second skin,
body tent; boots attached,
nothing underneath, up to my neck in it.
Mending my nets with it; hands reading the holes,
the things I forgot, that slipped through the --- careful,
the current. Careful, the mud.
The moving ground, on what ground than I
care to remember. Forever knitting a new blanket,
forever tide versus chest,
breasts pressed against the lining;
eyes towards the riverbank. The cold that isn't wet.
But sometimes? Sometimes I get to pet the sun
as it melts onto the water.
Lara Bausten (she/her) is a writer and grad student currently based in Berlin. She's interested in book studies, textual scholarship and so-called experimental fiction. Some of her texts have been published in magazines like Literaturautomat or Cheeze Und Krackers Magazine.