Laurels Literary Magazine Fall 2015 | Page 63

of the tank. Head tilted up like he was asking God for something: forgiveness maybe. Or memory. its obsession with getting down there, to the bottom of the tank. His bubbles messed up, he says. I don’t understand. I never took unbalanced, his buoyancy shot. The pockets of air which serve to seem to get straight, with his head bobbing up and down in an almost completely vertical position. It explains why he can’t stay deep under. Aaron tells me about getting a pin and trying to save once. “50/50 chance pretty much,” he says. I think to myself that 51