NaPM April 20 2016

[billy]

Autumn covers next door's pool
in gilded oak leaves-

During spring's air the young woman wore blue
water splashed; a tailless bikini-clad mermaid
threaded through the rippled stage.
Sometimes she'd stand in the shallows
head back, arms stretched, watching.
A laugh, a flick of wet straw hair
before submerging to glide away;
no longer here.