over the sill and into the next room.

I didn’t at first recognize my assailant I thought it a villain

intent on my early demise not yet old enough for the grave yet not so young as to go the way of the gone. But I find it otherwise as I sit

gathering my sight in this dimly lit space. Just there by the doorway I left long ago

the light of day increases like the switch cast on a dimmer toggle

my life, full and richly buffet’d, I can choose to choose.