Plop

Hipshot toes in Mer Street baths
Punt aquamarine tiles.
Mrs. Poolan flops, crawling.

She blows hot and cold
Soggy in returning undertows.
Chloric sinkage
Tugs her bold front.

A knee action recovery stroke
Outperforms sloughed-off sun tan,
(a jellyfish-skirted dolphin).

Deep end's a brow mop
Barely tow hypolimnion tides
For it all to clout back.


-Christopher Barnes


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