“Go someplace you haven’t seen before,
where no one knows you, where you don’t think twice
about what to wear, how you look or who might be watching
as you let your body ease out into the sun and bask, lazy as a cat.
Untether yourself one by one from the engines of busyness
laptop, desktop, your wristwatch, your scribbled lists
and the telephone, especially the one you carry everywhere, the little tyrant.
(This will all feel unnatural. Remember that it’s not.)”
—from “Summer Sabbath”