Wading
by Cole Williams
[Editor’s Note: Click on the triptych below to view it at full size.]
Cole W. Williams is the author of Hear the River Dammed: Poems from the Edge of the Mississippi (Beaver’s Pond Press, 2017) as well as several books for children. Her poems have appeared in Intima: Journal of Narrative Medicine, Martin Lake Journal, Indolent Books online, Waxing & Waning, Harpy Hybrid Review, WINK, Creatopia, and other journals, as well as in a number of anthologies. She recently attended Rockvale Writer’s Colony and is currently a student in the MFA program at Augsburg University in Minneapolis.
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What surprising, fascinating stuff can you tell us about the origin, drafting, and/or final version of “Wading”? I have been thinking about the plane of humanity lately. Our natural confinement to land with an upward threshold of about 20 feet; the height a human can fall from and survive injury, the amount of time we can hold our breath, the depths we can dive. Our limitations are vast, yet we interface with the elements ceaselessly. “Wading” was created with this mental exploration in mind. There’s an intrinsic play between the tone and revelatory nature of the center triptych piece and the word selections in the panels next to it. Through the process of extrapolating my own piece, I delved deeper into the meaning of the poem.
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