Swimming into another year

above ground  

I want to recapture those
summer mornings alone
in the plastic purple backyard
pool inflated on the concrete
fashioned basketball court
pebbles stood unremoved
bumps to be caressed under
the water after removing
floating mosquitoes from the
top layer warm green hose
water that eventually turned
to ice when it filled circles
or multipack water balloons
when breakfast was an empty
stomach splashing around to
carve out the blurred vision

Here's to 31!