Delights

Ross Gay, a famed poet and essayist whose works include Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude and Bringing The Shovel Down, is known for his essayettes of delights, compiled in The Book of Delights and The Book of More Delights. Gay writes about the little things that delight him every day, such as a ripe mulberry tree or the scent of May lilacs. Write your own essayette about something that delighted you today!

Posted in response to the challenge Create a Challenge.

OverTheRainbow

VT

12 years old

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  • we did okay.

    i found a binder full of photos from my preschool years,

    lined paper covered in neat cursive

    signed by my teachers, women who i remember the names of

    and not much else. their voices were warm and the house

  • sukkot

    and there is room at our table, oh so much room we are simply

    bursting with food, we are overflowing,

    uniformity is not a problem in our sukkah. we can

  • sleepover

    we stayed up til one a.m. last night

    thirteen girls in a living room simultaneously laughing at nothing

    & yelling at each other to please please please shut up.

    we had ice cream cake and hawaiian pizza