from Swimming :

SOMETHING ESTHER WILLIAMS NEVER DID
IN THE FIRST POOLS OF MY CHILDHOOD

to vacuum a pool
to push a gondolier's pole
to bottom & drag
the floor for dregs

4 aug [1974]


from It's All a Movie :

SONNY'S SCRAPBOOK

between blue velveteen
front & cardboard back
held together by a spiral
of wire are brittle pages
I filld a half century ago

47 pictures of Betty Grable
19 of Esther Williams
9 of Keefe Brasselle
. . .

LET'S FACE IT

. . .
when I askd Esther Williams
if she did her own singing in "Skirts Ahoy"
she took my hand & sang to me
. . .