The fauve, briefly, in the pool

[oysternaut]

without adverb lovely enough

the shirt fell from the shoulder

the blade of which cut every thought

to its sudden wick

the shadow splayed across your back

a thin elk briefly

in a flex of sunlight

I stood as a hair on end

as the pool received your arc

and you swam the length and back

some dead wet leaves

a mottled

Comments

[negative__s]

uhmmm that's amazing, and my favorite font.

[oysternaut]

i know right?

it's from a collection of poems i had to write last year
for the class that made me want to stop writing
grr

[negative__s]

I understand that, but it forced a really great one out of you. You're my favorite writer, seriously!

[negative__s]

and I want to see the rest someday!