As The Summer Ends.

We sat by the communal outdoor swimming pool,
thin legs splashing in its, dull, safe water, cooler
now than last week, a summer was ending and
pensiveness hung as gossamer on evergreen bushes.

A hawk flew overhead and accidentally dropped its
prey, a sparrow, that with broken wings spiraled into
the pool; the bird bleed, we had to move our legs out
of the pool as it quickly turned burgundy.

A young couple who had frolicked in the water got
out and liquid rubies dripped off their sleek bodies.
In the changing room we avoided looking at each
other to see what time had done to us,