community pool (Haiku)

The hungry hippo

does not roar but weights a round
edges to blend in.

Photo credit By Don Juan, Comte de Montizón (1822 - 1887) Details of artist on Google Art Project [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Swelter in the Sun

The air hung nailed to the sky

like matted and framed art

imposing its image

on your view

Everywhere 

tiles of a mosaic landscape

are blurred by blocky pixels

The sun was closer

over there

and tasted like

drying butterflies

fluttering afloat

on wafts of wind

shifting its salty scent

under the stench of seaweed

seagulls plead

for more

humid places to hide

in plain sight

behind blankets of fog

rolled into the corner

banked against the wall

Prickling sweat seeps
out of pores 

through toes, by feet, notches

sand measuring your senses

by the multifaceted grains

Counting into delirium

the ebb and flow 

of aqua vita replenishes

reflecting brightly

blinded by pale optimism

of new beginnings binding me

I glare

back

parched

and drenched

moving on.

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