Downstream

off course; she’s heading my
way and she can’t see me and
I stop as a man on a kayak
puts her back on track.
I get to the end of the dock
and swim alongside boats,
some like old-fashioned tugs;
on one a couple are sitting
having their breakfast as
hundreds of people swim
past. I turn on to my back;
there are no overhanging
trees here, no bright blue
dragonflies, instead I see a