60 Laps Make a Mile
My mind swims with thoughts
of swimming laps
in the Naval Academy pool--
Olympic length--
and on my back the entire way.
Sixty laps I think,
although it doesn’t matter now,
how many made a mile.
The part I liked was moving
away from the thinking brain,
through my chlorine haze... Up and beyond
the roof’s patterned skylight
framing me,
and into those clouds:
Just disappearing for awhile.
Kay Weeks, poem & Margaret Scott, drawing
June Collaboration, 6.22.12
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5 comments:
Being in the water is great therapy for the mind, body, and spirit. The words and illustration in this posting come beautifully together.
I remember those 30 laps just looking at that line at the bottom of the pool. Damn boring.
Don't forget to watch the Olympic trials for track and field starting today on TV.
Bob
San Diego, CA
Very nice.
Anne G.
DC
neat, says this non-swimmer, as she wishes she had learned to do so... lora
I love this one - before my broken arm, I swam a mile or so every other day, year 'round - never at the Naval Academy, although I know the pool - had to swim 72 laps for a mile - and yes, I totally know the chlorine haze and "disappearing..."
cindi ryland,
RETROPOLITAN
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