Instinctive Drowning Response

David Moolten is the author of three poetry collections: Primitive Mood (Truman State University Press, 2009), which won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry; Especially Then (David Robert Books, 2005); and Plums & Ashes (Northeastern University Press, 1994), which won the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize. His poetry can be found in The Georgia Review , Poetry , Epoch , The Kenyon Review , Southwest Review , and elsewhere. He is a physician who lives, writes, and practices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photo by Sharon Rhinesmith