laps

when dalliance returns, the one after the other, dallying
while dallying     who'll

for the token night gathers its pools
pool a woman carrying children into
citronella gathers to its pools a whistle, sailing

night arrow across the track's prepared
burnishment of absorbing the election's
sweat through to the presidential election's absorbing
the porous rubber collects,

becoming the racetrack, pinned there
inhaling a sterile water,

in ballooned and extinguishing colonies evenly,
creating a sugar-burn of esophagus crackling
like this: chlorine; forest fire. chlorine;
forest fire.

breathing pools. chlorine cohabits
in a form of malaysia through the opening vessel.
fires for the palm through this opening.

as that happens could you both sit and easily drink,
flicking cards up to snapping light, red horses rearing
and crackling mosquitoes. for us going round the fence's

mosquito death one two one two.
or to the light to mosquito oneoneoneone two.
to one. one.            one one.