Poem

Eating Raisin Bran straight from the box: drinking Super Dieter's Tea: reading poem after poem on the Internet: I find 32 clues to the life I’d like with you: and write this list of hope and risk:

1. Garden gates
   
2. Raking leaves
   
3. My clothes in your closet
   
4. Long nights
   
5. Fights
   
6. Eggs in the morning
   
7. Forgiveness
   
8. Oral sex
   
9. Bathtubs
   
10. Watermelon
    
11. Laundry stains
    
12. Pounding of a heartbeat in my ear – is it yours or mine?
    
13. Old furniture
14. Dirty knees
    
15. A little help unzipping
16. Horizons
    
17. Flaps of wing
    
18. Apples and peaches
    
19. Curling up like commas
    
20. Shadows
    
21. Compost piles
    
22. Sunlight
    
23. Supper on the stove
    
24. Mending
    
25. Beautiful music
    
26. Trees in the yard
    
27. The smell of shirts and sheets and skin
    
28. Fingertips
    
29. The passage of time
    
30. Chickens
    
31. Sipping wine
    
32. Saving grace