What was on the wall that day.
Saw a great gray owl perched at the gate before dawn.
My partner asks me how I'm sleeping. Every time. He listens.
My nephew asks me to read his favorite book. The same one every time.
Tomatoes warm from the sun.
A deer ate my hostas. I am annoyed and delighted.
Grateful for whoever invented sleep masks. Whole night, deep dark, dreams.
My wife rubbed my feet without being asked tonight.
Grateful I learned to apologize. It took until my forties.
My neighbor brought soup when she found out I was sick. We've never spoken before.
My mother always said g'night, kiddo, even when I was forty. I miss g'night kiddo.
Reading by flashlight under the covers, way past bedtime, the whole world held in a paperback.
My grandmother's hair smelled like rosewater. She kept the bottle on the bathroom shelf. I have one now.