Ten Unmediated Pleasures

1. A linen shirt growing smooth beneath a hot iron.
2. The moment I notice she's kissing me back.
3. A spider's web, stretched across the casement of my office window.
4. Feeling my age—and realizing that I would never want to be young again, not for a million fucking dollars.
5. A small girl on her bicycle.
6. Panama'd dozing on a park bench at midday, drowsy heat dissolving the knots in my shoulders.
7. The sound of church bells.
8. The sight, through a window, of parents and child, standing in grass to their knees, holding hands in a ring.
9. Geese on the lawn, leading five grey-green goslings like web-footed tennisballs.
10. Her. And her. And them. And you.