Swimming Into Poetry

Swimming into Poetry

Films of swimming in bodies of water paired with poems the water inspired

Cold Water Superior

Swimming Along the Shore at Drummond Island

Stepping into the cool aquamarine waters of Lake Huron,

I am finally home.

Home in my body, Home in my heart,

Home in my spirit

Swimming along the craggy shore of Rocky Point

Jenny Lake

Green Pacific

Aquamarine

The aquamarine on my finger

Reminds me of swimming in

Layers of green blue water.

Aquamarine, Sea water stone,

ruled by the moon

Brims with feminine energy.

Aquamarine of healing power

Peaceful flowering

Protecting and purifying as

I move through life,

As I swim through bodies of water

Protecting and purifying

Green Pacific at Drake Bay

From up on the hill where we sleep,
the ocean murmurs its rhythm,
But as I walk down the hill to the beach,
I hear the deep rumble
And slow roar of the waves,

a surround sound symphony of the sea.

Bde Maka Ska

Full Moon Swim

The full moon beckoned to me all night, enticing me to

Celebrate this Harvest Super Blue Moon.

As the moon was setting in the dark morning sky

I slid into this warm city lake under

The stars and planes and early morning traffic sounds.

Bde Maka Ska

Swimming in Bde Maka Ska

Lake White Earth, I come through the former

Dakota village imagining lodges on the

Graveyard hill above

Biking through Heyote’ Otunwe

Cloudman’s village, where the Dakota

People planted gardens near the lake.

Moving past visions of the past

I acknowledge and pay tribute.

I honor planting and harvesting,

Drummond

Lake Superior Video

Tea Water Lakes

Sepia toned tea stained water

Flows into these lakes.

Lakes that have no pollution

From gas motors or agricultural run off

Only canoes and kayaks

Enter these lakes

But brown water seeps in from

Golden amber compost of leaves and

Pine needles, grasses and swamps

Forests and wetlands that

Knife Lake

Determined to swim in Knife Lake one more time

Before we climb back into the loaded canoes, I

rose early. Blessed to be on a lake with such clear

deep blue water, swimming in

Aquamarine

Knife Lake

Lake Superior

When I step into the cool clean water of Gitchee Gami

Great Sea Water, I consider the superior features of Lake Superior

A big lake which has the most surface water of any lake

And holds more water that all the other great lakes

Combined—10% of the worlds surface water.

settled many thousands of years ago by the Laurel people,

Then Dakota, Minominee , Nipagon, Noauet and Anishinaabe

Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park

I am here,

Euphorically gazing up at these mountains rising out of this lake

Out of this valley. Straight up into the air.

Reef

Reef Snorkeling Too Close to the Rocks

Snorkeling in the magical waters of the Galapagos Islands,

Gems of the Pacific that shine far off the coast of Ecuador.

Sliding off the rim of the rubber raft and moving toward the warmish

Waters I turned off my logical brain and transfered to

Sensory creative. I followed the fish,

Full Moon Swim

Cold Water October Superior Swimming

I acknowledge I am on Anishinabek Nation Ancestorial Land and give thanks for this land and being able to swim in this lake.
Long ago this island, Mooningwaanikaaning or
Madeleine Island was settled by people from the east who

Being Present in

the Galapagos

Seeing the water, I smile.

Smile to be in this place

Just being,

Not engaging , not chatting , just here.

Being Present

Fossil Ledges

The Fossil Ledges of Drummond Island

We walk for miles on a rutted dirt road to reach