Small Joys
Rotisserie chicken from the grocery store
A friendly neighbor
My mother’s handwriting
Eating salad straight from the salad bowl
The sounds from the baseball field behind my house
The birdsong in the trees
The trees
The cat that patrols the beach as though it were his
The market at the corner
A novelty keychain
Leafing through papers and journals and other lost things in the almost dark
Old books that other people wrote in
Old maps