Twenty-Five Small Things

One clean shirt. Two matching socks. The kettle before rain. A bus that waits. The last green pear. Your name on my screen. A pen that works. The lift arriving empty. Sun on the stair. Keys in their place. A song remembered whole. Soup for tomorrow. The plant making one leaf. No letter from the bank. A dog at the crossing. The crossing turning green. My knee hurting less. Your hand on my sleeve. Five quiet minutes. Then five more. The neighbor bringing bins in. The moon above scaffolding. Breath without instruction. Enough not to fix the world. Enough to enter evening.