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she's as strong as a mountain

she's as safe as a house

[moe]

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me: are you going to drink that entire glass of milk?

susan: well, it's five o'clock somewhere.

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I'm at peace. My stomach is full, my mind is straight and far away, like a receding ocean. I fill my skin, I breathe in, then out. The sun touches me where I need it.

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Some days it's strange to be alive, but not today. Today I feel like I'm a kid on my grandmother's porch, in Texas. I would step outside, line my feet up with the first step, and when I smelled the grass and felt the heat and saw the plum trees I knew that I belonged there as much as the swingset against the fence.

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What happens, most days? Why do I feel like something someone forgot to put up?

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But. Not today.

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Today I am absolved. I can exist in love and be loved, despite the parts of me that don't fit, don't say what I meant to say. Today I know that I can have the sun on my hair, the dirt under my nails. Nature is generous.