Nightswimming deserves a quiet nightnnPhotograph on the dashboardnTaken years agonTurned around backwards so the windshield shows every streetlightnReveals the picture in reversenStill it’s so much clearernnI forgot my shirt at the water’s edgenThe moon is low tonightnnNightswimming deserves a quiet nightnI’m not sure all these people understandnIt’s not like years agonThe fear of getting caughtnOf recklessness and waternThey cannot see me nakednThese things they go awaynReplaced by every daynnNightswimming remembering that nightnSeptember’s coming soonnI’m pining for the moonnAnd what if there were twonSide by side in orbitnAround the fairest sunnThat bright tight forever drumnCould not describe nightswimmingnnYou I thought I knew younYou I cannot judgenYou I thought you knew menThis one laughing quietlynUnderneath my breathnNightswimmingnnThe photograph reflects nEvery streetlight a remindernNightswimming deserves a quiet nightnDeserves a quiet night.n