Happy Remarks

What was on the wall that day.

My partner reads the obituaries and then tells me one good thing about each person. I love that he does this.

My mother had a green chair. It was hideous. She loved it. We left it at the curb when we moved. I see green chairs and miss her.

A nap I didn't plan.

A man at the laundromat showed me how to use the machine without making me feel stupid.

A clean junk drawer.

First fireflies of the year.

A breeze through the kitchen window with the curtains lifting.

Walking into the library on a hot day. The cold. The silence. The smell.

Grateful for the dentist who told me my mother brushed my teeth for me when I was little. He could tell. The enamel.

A spider built a web across my doorway overnight. I went out the back.

The way starlings sound in a parking lot. Whole conversation I can't follow.

My mother sewing patches onto my brother's knees. The shape of his knee on the kitchen table. I miss that shape.

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