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That Spot

There’s always that spot,
So innocently it sits there.
Amongst the shadows of my garden,
That spot, my spot, sits unaware.

Unaware that it makes my day
So much warmer and more bright.
My day gets its ray of sunshine,
Just that strip of light.

Defiantly basking in the sun,
My spot holds its own.
Momentarily restoring some sanity
the rim to collect some of the foam. It my odyssey down the stairs and into the To my squabbling home.
had cooled slightly, but was perfectly complete darkness of the kitchen. The
enjoyable lukewarm. The caffeine was just wonders of convection meant that, as My spot only surfaces
as effective as always. I was able to follow I made my way down the stairs, the air When mother nature permits.
it, track it and appreciate as it seeped into temperature dropped significantly, making Otherwise, it’s camouflaged
my bloodstream and the lifted the weight the environment far more conducive to Amongst shade and mist.
behind my eyes. the survival of humans. I peered out the
My newfound energy produced an bay window: a tree was swaying gently in It’s my place. My spot.
immediate compulsion to consume sugar. the breeze. I shuddered. Down here the
The fresh enthusiasm snapped me clean sound of the dishwasher was pervasive, It knows me like its own,
out of the dwam: I had a purpose! Of its incessant growling accelerating my Yet, down the rain pours,
course, the prerequisite for such fervent progress to the kettle. Its whir was joyous And the spot shrinks to stone.
action was to get off the sofa, which by comparison. Once I stood still next to
necessitated the inevitable lurch from the it, my peace drowned in an epiphany. But after the rain,
side-lean lounging position. The long-term I was happier. In the darkness there were There’s that spot at the bottom of my
holding of this had, in fact, unbeknownst fewer things to experience, but each of
to me, cut off the circulation to my these was experienced more acutely. In garden.
right arm, rendering my exit particularly that sleep-deprived state I was able to Sat within a rectangular pool of light,
graceful. Regardless of my near physical appreciate the world around me. I feel so comforted, so certain.
failure to stand up, I was successful in Laurence Linklater (S5)
Elisa Sangrar (S5)

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