The Old Swimming Hole

from The Sandhill Crane by Fendrick & Peck

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I imagine my receipts
Lifting from the drawer in front of me
Digits and decimals
Become marks on fluttering butterfly wings

The books I want to read
Seem to multiply each week
The pages become soil
Words bend like cattail and milkweed

I have places to go
And a list of things to do
I’d rather watch the red tail
And share this place with you

The tempo is slow
Down at the old swimming hole
Where pondweed tickles
And cushions the floor
Dragonflies and monarchs
And swallows gently soar
There's an orchestra of frogs
Someday I’d like to join
And a moon that cues
Kingfishers and snipes
The tempo is slow
Down at the old swimming hole

Where a mirror on the wall
Turns to a ripple round my feet
Distorted reflections
Fold below into a dark mystery

Where rustlings on the edge
End the stirrings in my head
And the shimmer across the water
Reveals a golden thread

I have places to go
And debt to pay
I’d rather stay here
See what the clouds have to say

The tempo is slow
Down at the old swimming hole
Where pondweed tickles
And cushions the floor
Dragonflies and monarchs
And swallows gently sore
There's an orchestra of frogs
Someday I’d like to join
And a moon that cues
Kingfishers and snipes

The tempo is slow
Down at the old swimming hole…

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from The Sandhill Crane, released September 25, 2016

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