things I am looking forward to once my grades are in.

• planting flowers. loads of them.
• assembling delicious dinners with lots of vegetables. lots.
• wearing white clothes like crazy.
• waking up whenever.
• sleeping with the fan on.
• reading all the books that are waiting for me to read them. maybe Moby Dick.
• watching that damn Lemonade visual album for heaven's sake.
• breakfast with my daughter.
• my parents' sixtieth wedding anniversary party.
• going to Phoenix to hang out with my son and daughter-in-law, and Will and Van.
• writing poems every day. poems for days. poems like mad.
• organizing things around here so that things are immaculate. (I know that's not real, but maybe closer to immaculate. the next county over from immaculate. from here, it's just a short, 30 minute drive to immaculate. I could call immaculate and it wouldn't be long distance. immaculate and I are in the same time zone. like that.)
• making video essays.
• visit to my friend in NoCal.
• long walks at night, when it's cool, with Bruiser and the historian.
• seeing grandkids galore!
• hopefully even more visits to further climes.
• dreaming time.
• and so forth.

I am turning my grades in tomorrow, so all this magic begins in mere hours. MERE HOURS is when the magic starts.