swimming in the dark
it's the only way to
go on
a late night visit
to the parentsinlaw's pool
the water is silvery
disks of mercury
curls of steel and
black hematite
something is bobbing
on the surface
and we don't know
what it is
but it drifts toward
the filter
and we are hot
enough for anything
dip in your still
over heated head
so all the blood can
cool
lapping back
and watching the sky
a browny dust over
aubergine
as if the sun
still fierce long
past the far horizon
has yet to be
completely overshadowed
a sting on the hand
possibly a wasp but
who can tell
in the smallbeam of the phone's torch
we call goodnight
as
we drip past
the yellow shine of
the bedroom window
driving home on a
fold of towelling
diving into bed
still damp
acclimatising
eventually into sleep
Excellent descriptions.
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