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Night Swimming

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Night Swimming - signifying an ultimate kind of freedom. A poem for June at the lake 🐟 #waterland #lake32 #poetinresidence #poem #poetry #nightswimming #oss #outdoorswimmingsociety

JLM Morton31 May 2020
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