Summery Day - A Poem (From "Four Folded Corners")

A tribute to summer and those fab beach days

Across the deck,
I lie splayed --
an upturned star

a squinty-eyed face
gazing at a brilliant,
baby blue sea

umbrellas flutter
nearby, like sting rays
or pulsing jellies

this inverted world

I wish
to be a fish
in this fluid

summery day,
where I'd ever so slowly
swim away.

By Mary E. Lohan