Pond Reflections
I'm de-boned, on my back, sun-dazed,
green water slipping under ribs.
I circle a mandala of light behind my eyes.
Pals slip through rings of sparkling sunshine.
Pale limbs dive through slowly spinning water
while time sloshes back and forth.
A skinny black girl, her torso submerged,
long neck holding her head up
like a swimming Anhinga.
A chubby white boy gulping the sky
as he doggy-paddles around me.
My body feels tugged by cosmic sluice gates.
I could tell the girl how wonderful she is
but my skull is an open hatch.
I could befriend the boy for life,
but we inhabit rival schools in a ferocious town,
and my skull is an open hatch,
For years they were reflections in my eye,
now my mind struggles to float there -
it sinks too deep in a far distant pond.
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