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Weekends, Sleeping In by Marjorie Saiser (poet)

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Posted 2010-December-19, 10:10

Weekends, Sleeping In

by Marjorie Saiser

No jump-starting the day,
no bare feet slapping the floor
to bath and breakfast.

Dozing instead
in the nest
like, I suppose,
a pair of gophers

underground
in fuzz and wood shavings.
One jostles the other
in closed-eye luxury.

We are at last
perhaps
what we are:
uncombed,
unclothed,
mortal.

Pulse
and breath
and dream.

from Beside You at the Stoplight. © The Backwaters Press, 2010. Reprinted with permission at The Writer's Almanac.

p.s. I am such a gopher. I'll bet wolverines do this too.
If you lose all hope, you can always find it again -- Richard Ford in The Sportswriter
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Posted 2010-December-19, 11:47

What a nice thought for Sunday morning. Thanks for sharing.
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