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My Dream of Celibacy

Dreamed c.1984 by Sibbie O'Sullivan

Last night a life guard swam to me.
I was waiting on the bottom, like treasure.
He took me in his strong blond arms
and swam to the 3-feet side
where he stood me up.
With my hips under water he smiled
at me and shook shells from my hair;
then he ran his hand down my shoulder,
"That was a close one,"
rearranging the strap of my suit.
"Yes, but didn't you see the moon,"
I said, "how it hung its stockings
on the line to dry." "I understand,"
he said and moved closer and placed
one blond finger on my lip,
as if to brush off sand.
Suddenly I could say no more
and the water rushed out around
my legs and I was growing together
getting ready for the sea
and large rocks. It was April.
"It's only a part-time job," he said,
turning, and with the ease of a sailor
lifted himself from the pool.
I saw the water run down the deep crease
of his back, the deep blond hair of his calves.

In the day I walk to the highschool
where the swimming pool lies open
like a vault,
widowed of water.

SOURCE: Dreamworks: an Interdisciplinary Quarterly (v.4, no.1, 1984, p.13)


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