To wake, and watch the sun arise,
Through crisp and lustrous cloudless skies
Without the weight of pending work
Or jogging, childcare, undarned shirts,
Just the brilliant endless day
To use (or not) in any way
To swim, play golf, or just relax
On hammock, towel, or just your back.
I have this image every dawn
That brief half-second each new morn,
Fumbling the clock radio knob-
And then recall I have a job.