Your Eyes in Kitchen Light

by The Hearth Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

No sunset is involved. No stars arrange themselves. You are reading the electricity bill beneath the stove hood, wearing the glasses you misplace daily. Then you look up, and your eyes hold worry, calculation, and the joke you are about to make. I love them most in this light: not perfect, not posed, completely present.
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