List of Places Where the Sun Projects Squares and Rectangles of Light Inside My House on Sunday Afternoons

·         One square across the entry throw where my cat, Carmel, sprawls to bath in the warmth.

·         A single rectangle at odds with the lines of the faux wood floor in the room where my wife faded away from me.

·         Another cast against the recliner where I sometimes sit simply to think.

·         Two squares in the den.

·         A trapezoid in the room where my daughter sobbed when boys broke her heart.

·         A square on each side of my bed.  One on the side where my feet find the floor each morning.  The other on the side now untouched.

·         The last square of light drowning in the pure white of the bathtub in my bathroom.   

--Mitchell Hegman