The kids were in the pool

all afternoon

Boys and girls

Bikinis and fighting

A hormonal soup

And I wonder if she’ll remember this day when she is 50

How hot it was before she burst into bloom

At 2 am when I still couldn’t sleep, I took

My flabby body into that pool

The concrete around it was still warm and it wasn’t perfect

I could smell the chlorine and the electric cable marred the stars that I could not name

But as I floated, naked, I could sense the hanging swelling fruit all around me and I knew that the owl was still alive and that he was nearby

As I floated I thought:

How much freedom there is to be found when people are sleeping.