AQUATICS

AQUATICS

“I went swimming early this morning. The air was cool, the water warm. Sunlight on the wavelets cast a pattern on the aqua floor of the pool—a shimmering undulating net, like meshed lightning. With a child’s absorption in her toes, I trod that enchanted trap.        ...

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FANCIFUL

FANCIFUL

Fanciful An orange Italian cup I held at breakfast made me happy—it was so fanciful— and remembering how my own voice adorned me. Selyna, now I do know I’ve got to go. Maybe it was seeing a forgotten name on a notepad that reminded me of that old metamorphosis by the...

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LOOK BEFORE YOU…

LOOK BEFORE YOU…

“I could say that Karl and I have junked our old classroom schedule, to our mutual relief. I could say that my voice teacher and I are confiding like conspirators of long-standing. I could talk at length about the evening I spent playing charades with Kay and company,...

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CHAIN

CHAIN

“To feel the pleasant cool spot of my own finger poised against my cheek, to savor everything a little, laugh when the crazy pampas grass stalk in my car lurched softly into my face, to pull my wool cap down to my eyebrows and rejoice that I’d found it on the seat of...

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ELECTRIC

ELECTRIC

“This is the strangest day of illness of all. I am unaccountably fitful. One minute I spring up with an apparent surfeit of energy and pace about, restlessly reviewing plans and projects in my mind, the next I fall suddenly into a sleep, like a swoon, for five minutes...

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CHANGES

CHANGES

Following my dream “Aerial,” I experienced an altered state of consciousness—one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life—that I chronicled in a series of vignettes:

“Literally overnight, a startling change has come over me. I have incomprehensibly achieved a vivid sense of my life’s continuity. I am discovering…

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