Reciting Project in June: Water
June is the start of one of my favorite things: open swim season at Lake Nokomis. This June (2020), because of COVID-19, I won’t be doing it. In honor of swimming across the lake and to help me endure its loss, I’m memorizing poems about water.
- Water in Love/ ed bok lee
- Water/ Li Young-Li
- Landing Under Water, I See Roots/ Annie Finch
- Water Picture/ May Swenson
- Morning Swim/ Maxine Kumin
- The Nude Swim/ Anne Sexton