RECIPE

In my dream I see the recipe
for happiness
as if happiness
was a chocolate chip
cookie

but when I wake up
the recipe is gone
and I think for a minute
I've got to get up
and go to work
but then I remember
it's Sunday
and I haven't been to church
in 42 years.

I put my leg
over my lover
and think
that must be part
of the recipe:
putting your leg over
your lover
and going back to sleep
on a Sunday morning.


Mather Schneider
Tucson, AZ

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