How does one receive
a boxful of dreams come true?
I will name the man in the big brown truck
a priest or professor.  Do I bow or kneel to receive it,
the sunlight sparkling
through leaves of dogwood.
Just stand and smile,
and take it into my hands.
Are there ritual words of thanks and blessing?
Can you know, good sir,
how this act, this moment,
changes me from one thing to another?
How the moment I turn
and walk away from you
I have become something else,
something else entirely?

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Gratitude List:
1.  My book is here!
2.  The strawberries are in
3.  I won the May Poetry Contest on Versify
4.  That weather out there is as perfect as it can get, and something about perfect weather makes me feel whole and happy.
5.  Did I mention that my book came today?

May we walk in beauty.