in memory, throughout, all at once

It was the wide-open windows of summer drives that I started to miss. The evening sun hiding behind a hillside, waiting to reveal exploding reds and oranges when the car finally finishes the bend. Warm skin. Lighter eyes. Aching legs. It blends together, you know, all of those good moments.

He asked me once where I’d like to live and I said I didn’t know, anywhere really, so long as it was an old stone cottage, with a room for reading, a studio for making, on an ocean cliff, beside a lighthouse, overlooking fjords, Mediterranean breezes, northern lights, gardens of vegetables and flowers, a field of lavender, the Redwoods close, my sister next door, and some place to play my piano.

The morning commute, the afternoon commute, miles of tunnels, waiting at the same spot on the platform everyday.