10 ways to make today okay. maybe.

1. Soup in a bowl. Vegetables pile in the centre.

2. Photographs. Mine, others, colours, light.

3. Hot shower. Water hitting chest, slick and warming stomach.

4. Honey in tea. It glitters.

5. Foaming toothpaste. Making clean, making fresh.

6. Retainer. Keeping the snaggletooth at bay.

7. Flowers. Out there somewhere.

8. Grey clouds. Pathetic fallacy.

9. Bed. Sinking warmth, however temporary.

10. Shut eyes. Everything stops.