the sun provides

The sun weighs on the baby

blue pool. White edges on the positive-spaced

mermaids and mermen

and negative-spaced generic fish shapes. Once live

creatures now subject to entropy – they disintegrate in light.

The sun cracks the plastic where it hits

the longest and most often - in the morning

and after-later-noon: expands and contracts irregularly.

The pool lays lop-sided in the bed

with the corrugated base,

rests in the indentation and settles on the wheel hub. It bends

on the bottom edge and blends

into the encrusted dirt and debris and dead.

There was a puddle from rains – a puddle that leaves

edges of brown and white. Sediment marks

the evaporation on the rusted rouge resting

place in the truck bed and in the pool bed.

The sun trembles on the glassy water left from the rains -

jostles, then shimmies, then trembles.

Light pushes through the fragile, thin pool

edges and eats through the relenting water.