if i was going to write a story i would want it to be about something new
like sleeping in an old room for the first time
or washing a t-shirt from the thrift shop and putting it on -
something fresh
like young vegetables from an italian widow's garden
or when you think of a word and at that exact moment
hear it in a stranger's conversation -
something we don't think about
like a fighter who wins without ever raising a hand or lying
like dust blown in through a city window and settling on a clean-scrubbed table
like the first glass of water in the day -
something familiar and entirely possible that has never happened before