Lazy Afternoon

Measure your health
by your sympathy
with morning and spring.
If there is
no response in you to
the awakening of nature,
--if the prospect of
an early morning walk
does not banish sleep,
if the warble of
the first bluebird
does not thrill you,
--know that the morning
and the spring of your life
are past.
Thus may you feel your pulse.
--Henry David Thoreau
(journal entry for February 25, 1859)
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pilgrims on the Escalante route
twilight ruuscal outside Garnet Canyon
Grant Green: "Lazy Afternoon"
herself on the prowl