You swam in the ocean for the first time,
your small naked body
somehow stayed warm
while we shivered around you,
all of us drunk
on your happiness.
Kicking
splashing
you looked up at me
as if to make sure
I was seeing what you were seeing.
The rocks and the seaweed
bigger and wigglier,
carnival colours,
a fairy tale
magnified
through the glass
of the sea.