Cool air, cool water

Record-breaking temps here, nearly cooked us all when the A/C stopped working. Plumbline told us that it would cost too much to fix and we should spend $7,000 on a new unit (at minimum). Bill from 1st Call came over and fixed it in a half-hour for less than $500.

To celebrate the cooler air in our house and the cool water of the pool, here's a swim poem:

Mom Watches Child Swimming

Can you be what I cannot?

Sinuous, flowing, far-reaching, fast.

A creature of water, exhaling silver circles,

Watching light bounce off your fingertips

As you extend from the shoulder,

Hips rolling, chin turning.

Your inhalation finds 

Narrow channel of oxygen between

Body and wake.

Flexible feet beat in six-eight time

Through turquoise medium, 

Splitting the atoms

So chlorine releases to air –

A jet trail of clear water marking your flight.