The Big Man

A serious splash

Talk of beached whales

& pools being instantly emptied

Firm disruptive strokes

Followed by the intense calm

Of a good body afloat

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Far

There is a half moon

At halfway

Through the day

Or somewhere thereabouts

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Poolside

The first swim of the day

My first swim of this vacation

The rubber duck thermometer

Is already at 27 degrees - centigrade that is

Terracotta tiles line the blue sky

This being the only horizon

Unless I include the waving pine

Whose needles fall, effortless, to the water

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A

The short grey-silver hair

Suggests a settled state

This stasis is further amplified

By a simple story

Of a farmer, telling this particular vegetarian, who helps him marshall his runaway cattle, that truly they are all family pets

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Brush

One draught of breeze

In its own slight time

Takes me sideways

Mind-move meander

At the pace of lightning

I will catch up later

In the stillness of dusk

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