Bodies of Light

by Jennifer Down

A month-to-month calendar hanging on the kitchen wall, each page with a different Gary Larson cartoon.

I thought about how much we carry with us, and how things like smells and sounds can become normal or not-normal without us noticing, and how our memory gets papered over, and how

and I buy some coffee, which brings me pleasure as both a ritual and a smell, and which also makes my heart beat faster,