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30 Most Satisfying Simple Pleasures

1. Sleeping In on a Rainy Day
2. Finding Money You Didn’t Know You Had
3. Making Brief Eye Contact with Someone of the Opposite Sex
4. Skinny Dipping
5. Making the Yellow Light
6. Telling a Funny or Interesting, True Story
7. Seeing a Friend Stumble Over Himself
8. Hearing the Right Song at the Right Moment
9. The First Sip of a Beverage When You’re Thirsty
10. Catching a Glimpse of Bare Skin on the Opposite Sex
11. Saying the Same Thing Simultaneously
12. The Pull-Through Parking Spot
13. Realizing You Have More Time to Sleep
14. People Watching
15. Putting On Clothes Straight from the Dryer
16. A Familiar Smell
17. The Feeling You Get When Your Idea Works
18. Fresh, Clean Bed Sheets
19. A Beautiful View
20. Reminiscing About Old Times with Your Closest Friends
21. Receiving an Unexpected Compliment
22. Having a Good Laugh
23. The Feeling After a Healthy Workout
24. Receiving a Real Letter or Package via Snail Mail
25. The Celebration in the Instant Something Makes Sense
26. Relaxing Outdoors on a Sunny Day
27. Holding Hands with Someone You Love
28. Playing in the Water
29. Making Someone Smile
30. Finishing What You Started

Blackout

Bathwater

Breathe out, so I can breathe you in.
I miss the salty taste of your skin.

The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald

"...Superior sings in the ruins of her ice water mansion...

...Superior, they say, never gives up her dead when the gales of November come early..."

the Giving Tree

Posessed by Light

Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake
and dress them in warm clothes again.
How it was late, and no one could sleep,the horses running
until they forget they are horses.
It's not like a tree where the roots have to end somewhere,
it's more like a song on a policeman's radio,
how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days
were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple
to slice into pieces.
Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it's noon, that means
we're inconsolable.
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it.

I Wonder Wonder