Ode to Pool Boy by Jennie Hart

 Pool Boy! Brown Pool Boy!

From where did you come

Like an exotic bird

Did you fly from the sun?

 

Your body was lean

And your look was so cool

Your expression intent

As you tended the pool

 

Are we sharing you Pool Boy

Or are you all ours

Clean only our filters

Of our pool decked with flowers?

 

My friends long to see you

Catch only a glimpse

As you speed by the chateau

I’ve not seen you since!

 

Like a Will O’ the Wisp

So nimbly you sped

Cleared the bees and the insects

Caught anything dead!

 

But soon we are leaving

Do you plan to come soon

Streak by like a comet

In the gaze of the moon?

 

So ‘au revoir’, Pool Boy

Hope soon you’ll be seen

Dipping olively bronzed

In our pristine piscine!

Château Burée

August 2024