Ru Freeman was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and is the author of two novels, A Disobedient Girl and On Sal Mal Lane (Graywolf, 2013), as well as several works of short fiction and political journalism. She received a BA from Bates College in Maine and an MA from the University of Colombo. Freeman lives in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.

At Sea

by Ru Freeman

From the bottom of the closer ocean

I scrape sand into a plastic bottle.
I don’t know the color of the waves that crash over my head


When I go under


I only feel that here, only here, in this one place,
A small rise that can be accessed by braving a sudden deep,
The sand is like water
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