Selfsame Surfing Without Getting Held Back by the Elements

I met them piggybacking on a friend’s babysitting gig / I was at the end of my stunted first stint as an au pair / days away from not so much crossing but closing the Channel / I went / Thought I’d be the odd one out / despite being a fish out of water / I found myself riding the same wavelength as these women / mother & daughters / the irony of it isn’t lost on me / the invisible & visceral separating glass I’d always known suddenly evaporated / turned out to be water / & I wasn’t just a fish / despite my scales.