Swimming Boy


Swimming Boy

Brown skinned boy swimming around the side

of this old stream,

You send those whispered waves crisscrossing

against the current on.

Surface flows in rippled plaid and sets

reflected trees to dreaming.

The sun glows gold, then pink, and links the

fading day to eve.

You go on playing, never knowing–

By one playful splash, a million wavelets

curve to clashing.