Prompt #13 The Art of Napping

For today's prompt, I want you to write a poem that incorporates a hobby (either yours or someone else's). That's right: Now is the perfect opportunity to write about your comic collection or your scrapbooking activities. And for the purposes of this challenge, I also think activities such as fishing, running, bowling, photography, birding, and gardening count as hobbies.

The Art of Napping

There is a world that enters in
with all the nuts and bolts of the day-

it is good to listen, then ignore that world,
in favor of the river that runs like an underskin

of complex elements blending and falling
out of their cups into

the phosphorescent seas that speak
of the connections of all things.

It is possible to tease out a few strands
so that they flow like current-grass and point

in the direction of events farther down
the mouth of the delta

full of things known, like a phone call
that might be heard before it arrives.

But such things are given up only
if you truly let go

until the breath becomes aware
of the breather and a walk through

a veil of warm snow welcomes you back to the world
which has tipped a little farther out

but not so far you can’t find the road
to go forward.


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