I find a thousand words for happy

the feeling of lostness
two or three streets from home

the sweetness of doing
nothing all Sunday

outside a car radio playing
oh mercy mercy me

reading an old mystery
with light streaming

through blue pines
and freshly washed curtains

and you upstairs
under the white quilt

By: Carla Sarett

Carla Sarett’s latest poetry chapbook, Any Excuse for a Party, is out from Bainbridge Island Press. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of Net, Best Microfiction and Best American Essays. Carla serves as Contributing Editor for New Verse Review and earned a PhD from University of Pennsylvania. She is currently based in San Francisco.