What are the Chances?

What are the chances?

What are the chances to wake and find the first sliver of winter light having fallen through a slit in the blinds of your bedroom window?

What are the chances to wake and find the first sliver of winter light having fallen through a slit in the blinds of your bedroom window and lain across your open hand like a burnished dagger?

What are the chances to wake and find the first sliver of winter light having fallen through a slit in the blinds of your bedroom window and lain across your open hand like a burnished dagger at the very instant you crash away from a murderous dream?

Thus I woke.

--Mitchell Hegman