Pool to Myself
Skin slipped
Limitless limbs
Gill-less anableps
Party of one
Medusa exhales
to test the silence of reflexes
Glassy pneumals
blow chlorine shivers
Not car
Not whirl
Not cess, not ponty
Pool
Settling pool
N95s et al sink
below thorax capacity
Water days and empty heads
Pool-lake-sea-mer
Mer wo man
Mer cre di
Mer it or ious
Come-a come-a mer id i an
INTRUDER ALERT!
Inhaling too seriously
Retract tentacles
Mer de!
Left Crow
She crow
strut
feathery
stilettos shimmer
Thoughts clang
centrifugal
She ready
Clouds growl on her
she hear
Smoke at back
sundog ahead
She wake ready
flap wings
drop wings
She fly
leave all
Girl in the Park
Now
she sleeps in a stemmed halo
of light
false park protection
Near her a baby-less carriage
as life cart
A red dress
billows from a rusted hanger
on an oak clothes line
a peony in the night
The wind will iron
its creases
Tomorrow
she will don that dress
it will correct her
A calla lily at dawn
she will erase herself