Poolside Pennsylvania Avenue

The pool shows its shallow end to the guests that

Have time and Jack on his hands.

Faint smell of berries painted on lips

Carry trawlers at pool bottom.

Tea towels reveal what the good boys of the Service

Could not cover — they’re good boys.

Why not buy them a beach ball and ten minutes in the glare with

Leslie or Glenda or the two that came together.

What did the jongleur see at the pool?

Jack relieves Bobby of his senses while

O’Donnell lifts Cary to the deep end with dangling legs

(and black and blue).

Can the pool man meet the daily obligations and

Find Ray Bans and traces on the pole, and

Will the giants regain their touch beyond

The gatekeepers and the well-rounded spaces?