Water Picture
In the pond in the park
all things are doubled
Long buildings hang
and wriggle gently
Chimneys are bent
legs bouncing on
clouds below.
A flag wags like
a fish hook down
there in the sky.
The arched stone bridge
is an eye with underlid
in Water.
In its lens dip crinkled
heads with hats that
don't fall off.
Dogs go by barking
on their backs.
A baby, taken to feed
the ducks dungles
upside - down a pink
balloon for a body.
Treetops deploy a haze
of cherry bloom for roots
were birds coast belly-uo
in the glass bowl of a hill
from its bottom a bunch
of peanut - munching
children is suspended
by their sneakers,
waveringly.
A swam with twin necks
forming the figure 3, steers
between two dimpled towers
doubled.
Fondly hissing, she kisses
herself, and all the scene
is troubled: water-limbs tage
the bridge folds like a fan.
