Drifting Through a Saturday in Summer

A cup of coffee

Some social media

Then a shower and a swim meet

sitting

waiting

cheering for 32.41 seconds

and then back to sitting

outside, under a tree, with a computer

working

for an hour

until the next race

on a beautiful Saturday

Home

Lunch

Outside for chores

The weight of midday hanging still

in the thick summer air

a distant mower

a barking dog

a fly landing on the brick step

next to my shoe

I leap

into a pineapple flavored

lifesaver float

drifting over coral

and the parrotfish there

snipping at algae

indifferent

to my shadow

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This is the fourteenth poem of my personal 30-day poetry challenge to break away from the machine to think about things that don’t matter. I have no idea what I’m doing. – Jim