beside me

Contents of nightstand:
1 maple leaf red enamel badge
Hawaii the Big Island Revealed: The Ultimate Guidebook
1/8 of a cup of hot chocolate in a pretty green mug (from Starbucks)
Alaska: The Magazine of Life on The Last Frontier
Fine Gardening [magazine]
snap bracelet watch in yellow and green
large legal pad
Washington Federal Savings green pen
gold dusty lamp with pleated and beaded shade.

Tonight I sleep with this beside me.

The other nightstand holds more books, magazines, a clock a matching lamp and a box of tissues, a second lamp and two sticky notepads.

Tonight I sleep between such inspiration and adventure.

The amoire and dresser at my feet are piled with misciallania, hats, gloves, jewlery, prints, small items from the spilled stocking, lollies and boxes.

Tonight the joys and trappings of a comfortable life surround me.

dreams will come, tonight

and tomorrow, light will bounce off suspended droplets, the prism will be at my fingertips