“Cold Shock” cycle: six poems by Caroline M. Mar (poetry ’13)

STAGE 1: COLD SHOCK
THREAT NO.1: LOSS OF BREATHING CONTROL

Gasping

There are an average of seven drownings per year in the lake, most due 
to cold water shock, even among those who are capable swimmers. Or were 
before the water folded them into itself: 
                                                                           a pocket of failure, a slipped 
                            seam of darkness out of the summer 
                                                                                                       sun’s light. 

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