good_luck raze if the stopwatch lands on a clean second, with nothing but a pair of zeroes past the last decimal point. if i remember to ink an x on this day's glossy white paper face before it goes grey around the temples. if i look at the clock at 12:34 without meaning to or catch a new hour in the act of being born. if a_trick_of_the_light paints a hazy window in the place where the cold breath of morning meets the slow shuffle of the afternoon. if a ladybug lands on my bedroom wall and deigns to stay there for a while. if the toilet tank whispers something soulful without my encouragement. if i don't lose sleep to the stilted singing of a self-seeking train_whistle. if any or all of these things happen, i think the day might have something good to tell me. and if not, i'm always ready to be surprised. 220131 ... tender_square two red bird mints housed in a single cellophane package, their cane sugar dissolving on my tongue like the sweetness of a fulfilled wish. 220216 ... epitome of incomprehensibility If I'm traveling in a vehicle and I can blink when it's between streetlights or posts. Jewels and glass beads. In early childhood, symmetry of bead placement in necklaces and bracelets; in adolescence, patterns without strict symmetry. 220216 ... kerry an antique iron horseshoe above my front door hung with ends up, it catches good luck with ends down, fortune flows freely 220217 ... tender_square reaching for my phone a microsecond before the alarm sounded, which marked the end of meditation. 220222 ... tender_square if you cut the first two digits from the year, today is 2-22-22, which seems pretty lucky to me. 220222 ... tender_square touching my thumb to the third eye of a carved owl each time i pass under the gates of county farm park. 220619 what's it to you? who go blather from