May Theme: Squares

When I go to North Central High School to swim 

on Saturday mornings, I am usually among 

the first to arrive. I often use the extra few minutes 

to sit down and look at the pool and its environs, 

a series of squares and rectangles just piled 

and piled on each other.

The squares are found, of course, everywhere: 

in the small tiles in the pool itself, then in the deck. 

The checkered pattern is found in the surrounding walls 

and red squares are included in the acoustic panels.

White squares line the pool in the form

of starting blocks. Then, of course, the whole thing 

is reflected back from the pool's surface, 

adding to the silent visual cacophony

before the storm, when fifty or so swimmers

churn the water into crystal mayhem.

Oddly, I find this scene calming and enjoy trying

to sort the patterns out, to find some kind of

visual rhythm to what may first seem

like a sensory mess.

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