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To Kayak
To be driven forward when sitting still
To kayak (verb) and kayak (noun)
To doodle the outline of your boat, the shape of closed lips
To butterbur, balsam, to adder's tongue
To walk past white water five years from now
and instinctively seek your line
To use swim as an insult, a sign of mistake, as in, Did you swim today?
To have a latex neck and wrists
To be guided by the moon-silver underleaf of mugwort on the bank
To be an angler's nemesis
To Teifi, to Wye, to Usk
To seek the playground of a weir or chute
To hide from your mum the deep scratch along the crown of your helmet
where river turned you upside down, backed you into a corner
reminding you how low and dark its voice can go
To pillwort, fen violet, valerian
To neoprene
To spend all afternoon digging water a shade lighter than mud
To know a town from the echo of its bridges
To be driven, damp, hungry, back to your starting point