Fountain Day
Intercity swimming pools exist beyond rigid
patrons—racket club hardliners—
places fire hydrants
burst and flood
streets that
hiss
and
sizzle
like ice on
scalding hot iron
skillets...sputtering...yet gifting
matchstick hot bodies a watery reprieve from heat.
Kids lose flip-flops at Central Park's Bethesda fountain
jump and splash like playful otters
in the MLK
library's
basin
that
shoots
two-tier
laminar
jets and social spray
free of charge at faceless people
who hail fountain days with thermodynamic aplomb.
