SUNDAY MORNING AT LOUGHTON POOL
From silvered, bolted, spanning girders
twisted ropes of stretching wire
support the streams of waving bunting
pointing at the sweatshirts worn
by lifeguards perched on rostrums.
In serried ranks the blue tiered seats
look up with closed inverted eyes
soon opened wide and occupied
by those who sit uncomfortably
in hot and humid atmosphere.
The cobalt lines which mark the lanes
in pulsing rhythmic Hockney patterns
twisting turning complementing
yellow goggles, green floats floating
orange arm bands.
From shafts of sun through tinted glass
reflected streams of dancing light
on barefaced brick where dials display
the time in hours, minutes taken,
session over time to leave.