Downstream

hear anything, I couldn’t talk
to anyone . . . I don’t mind
going solo but this was tough.
Sometimes I deliberately
swam to the side of the river
just to feel the reeds, anything
to find stimulation! You get a
different perspective of a
river when you’re swimming,
you feel it, smell it, you are
immersed in it and every
sense is alive, but in terms of
communication you are in
lockdown.