I’ve been enjoying the optical illusions at our local pool as I watch my children’s swim lessons and then the change in light when we return for evening dips. The reflections, the beveled surfaces, I hope you enjoy this poem paired with fractured light paintings by Michele Poirer-Mozzone including the cover art, “Bloom.” Enjoy!
Rectangular Summer Living
Rectangular summer living,
chlorinated waves contained,
sapphire with white diamond trim,
unnatural blue snowballs
dripped on freckled skin.
Horse fly desires,
the footprints of friends,
both disappear fast from
scalding concrete deck
splashed with memories
in folding chairs, behind
bent paperbacks, below
umbrella brimmed hats,
swaddled in sun-dried towels.
Fingertips wrinkle,
golden raisins in a sunglass haze.
Floating plastic buoys
divide the unused lanes,
dunk and dive,
disinfected surfaces,
pointless games;
the lost and found of
a plastic ring.
We bob and celebrate;
summer is forgiving
below a cellulite
blue and white surface,
our rectangular summer living.
© 2022 | K.Hartless
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