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Becalmed
by Priscilla Turner Spada
Inspired by Catamaran on Cedar Lake, by Sara Wadington
Hearing the lap of ripples on the shore,
and the familiar squeak of the screen door
at our get-away at Cedar Lake–
we laze, we read, we nap, we take a break,
escape the soot and blare of city streets.
We rest easy sprawled in cool bedsheets,
and in the hammock swung between two pines,
hoping to unleash the mooring lines
of the Cat that waits near the calmed lake.
Not likely--the sky and water are opaque;
it seems the weather has its own designs.
We sit back in our Adirondacks, our steins
half full. We top off, clink and drink and pour,
our pastime now. We couldn't ask for more.
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