summer-fish-pond

Courtesy of UnSplash

dash and dart

swimming sharks

in a murky green pond

leap!

—headfirst

stripes and dots

floating cloth

caught on coral rock

still and stiff

arms and legs

(not swimming

anymore)

you went to live

with the fish

and i wish

you could come home

i stay away from the summer-fish-pond

where you hit your head

and got so sick

you couldn’t come home