The pouring

of women’s breasts

cast in wrinkled water.

Pebbles blind and stationary

Scrubbing browned arms.

The fine calligraphy of black hair 

running down wet napes.

Silt, moss and sand between wary toes.

A sudden deepening into a long stretch of white

then a shore submerged in rocks.

A flat shale from the bottom;

shiny, dark and sleek.

Boys atop boulders, their arms shouldered wide.