My Wife

When you dumped a whole plateful of stringbeans on the napping cat, when you stood there in one sock, coughing, when you mispronounced “canopy” and everyone thought you were speaking a new language, when you flipped-over backward in the stuffed chair, feet flying high overhead as you vanished behind the overturned chair, when you wore your shirt inside-out for the entire day...that’s when I loved you most.

--Mitchell Hegman