Late-Afternoon Nap
There's nothing quite like catching an elusive snooze,
Grasping a fleet-footed catnap,
Grabbing a quarter of the normal forty winks,
Something far short of a ripsnorting Van Winkle doze,
To make a man on an escape from numbing urban routine
Surrender to the body's natural need to relax
And be sundered by the carefreedom a mini-slumber provides,
Which is precisely what I did, late this Friday afternoon,
Here, on my first full day back in away-from-it-all Wisconsin,
Where the lake is melting a month too early
And the few streets the village boasts are snowless,
Yet echoing with the fast-paced footfalls of my jogging shoes...
Nothing quite like chasing an hour's nap,
To awaken the soul to the balm of emancipation and calm.
03/12/10 - (2)
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