Half-hour Vacation to France
I latch the beagle to her blue tie-out under the windmill, then slide into the canvas lawn chair. Leaning back into the padding, legs spraddled out, my body remembers the cool Atlantic breezes of Mers-les-bains. The brightly painted seafront houses of Le Treport where we could just walk up to the wharf for moules or croissants. Somewhere near the top of the windmill, metal clinks softly as the wind chinks the blades forward. I slink even farther down in the chair as I feel large muscles release, remember how we raised glasses of Stella and wine to toast those slow afternoons. How the air sang through our hair on that waterfront patio. I hear the slur of waves murmuring as my beagle chews on a pine cone, here on this clay dam, at lake’s edge on our high hill above the Licking River.
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So beautiful- and a great reminder that we can all travel in our minds 🙂
I love how your muscles relax midway through the poem – a detail too often forgotten.
I love how the present day memories and the memories from France merge together! Very well done.
Love this 1/2 hour visit to France and back to your home!
Adore!
Hey Roberta I love your poem:
how a lazy afternoon can
transport us to another time&space.
(And I also live above the Licking River near Blue Licks State Park)
Whether it be Mers-les-bains or the Licking River, your poem make me want to visit and enjoy the surroundings both!
Especially love:
my body remembers
large muscles release
air sang through our hair
slur of waves
This is such a vivid “vacation of the mind.” And I especially like the “slur of waves.”