night swim

2022

I will remember the relief of dusk
that feeling when 
dark descends
broken only by warm porch lights
that flicker on the lapping water

you dive in 
again and again 
reveling in the cool
calm

and I 
root my bare feet to the damp 
pool shore
watch your heads bob 
like turtles
amid your shrieks of joy
that pierce the night