Sunset on My Back

Yellow light slowly moves across my back. The sound of you closing the window, after which dust in the room floats in the light. I stay in that spot a little longer.

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Alight

In the evening, a cat sitting on the kitchen cabinet looks out the window, then turns its head and starts licking its tail. I stayed there until the light left the floor.

Footfall

Watching the sunset move across the cat's back, I suddenly remembered the long light lying on my floor at dusk. Leaning against the windowsill, I saw it reach the wall.

Ebb

To you, sitting by the kitchen window on a winter evening, the sunlight swept across the tablecloth and lingered a while before leaving.

Sunpatch

Where the sunlight has left the tablecloth, that warmth still lingers. I sit curled up on the chair beside it.

Alongside

When the sunlight swept across the floor, there was a time the cat got up and walked to the window.

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