Bottoms Up
by Kelly Sauvage Angel, Terri L. French, Agnes Eva Savich, Jeff Hoagland, Tanya McDonald, Michael Dylan Welch
First published in Failed Haiku #45, October 2019, page 79. Originally written on 10 August 2019 at the Haiku North America conference, in Room 302 of the Hawthorne Inn and Conference Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (after, ahem, some skinny dipping in the hotel pool).
offering myself
to the moon
midnight swim Kelly
the push and pull
of her breaststroke Terri
longing to submerge
I dangle my feet
in the old pool Agnes
beneath the surface
our incidental touch Jeff
into the deep end
two bodies
one wake Tanya
out of the darkness
a camera’s flash Michael