Happiness as a Prompt

Seagull in the swimming pool

Freshly mown green Midwestern grass

Sun-white fence against black storm sky

Joshua Bell’s violin

You

The Atlantic Ocean

White nights of a Russian summer

Myself at three

The vowely sounds of Italian

You

By you I mean you

Colorado River

Boxer with the Serenity Prayer tattooed on your thigh

Pinpricks of rain on the skin

Orioles at the feeder eating grape jelly

Previously published in Inlandia: A Literary Journey