cobalt

The child began to cry. Tom tried to put his arm around her neck.
But she pushed him away
and turned her face to the wall
and went on crying. She had no companions
but silence and loneliness. She
looks sunburnt. She wants the car.
And she seized the boy in a crushing embrace that
made him fell like the guiltiest of villains.

A body does just the same in a dream as hed
do if he was awake. I tango around the pool,
and toggle the diving board. The water is lukewarm,
mild. The raft has clumps of dead gnats on it. Imagine if
the water were my fingers fondling your form. Its a
game Im making up. Ill make gurgly

noises and

he kept drifting about to find Becky
to lacerate her with his performance.

I dont know anything about bathing suits.
Were just shapes in the pool.