Suspended in midair, one-third flexion in the knee joints

The corpses are swollen, and the life jacket tossed among the many others just like it on the beach is a memento of those who drowned and those who survived, blinking its phosphorescent ode, they have passed through here and their passing will never not be here. Here they come now from afar.

Although they have fished me out wrung me out and slosed me into a metal room, in a forest far from the sea, visions of water still wash over me like flash floods […]