Happy Sunday, kind reader ✨
This month, I invited you into a three-part poetry challenge, each circling a different emotional current—softness, openness, and now, the quiet gravity of missing someone.
Today, we land gently on the final poem—one that arrives like a breeze off the west coast.
Today’s Poem
A Perfect Day
by Kellion Knibb — Click above to listen 🎧
Dear lover, Writing from Enseñada, making the best of a perfect day in the bay. After slow sun salutations under a glowing spring sunrise, Estero Beach overflows with rhythm pulled by ocean tides and open sky. It hums with soft sighs from people like me escaping the realness of their daily lives. I have wandered as far as I can bear, though not far enough to leave your smile behind. Making the best of a perfect day— bright, clear stretch of blue above, birds chirpy and loud, some high in distant view. Sea-scented wind on my chocolate thigh, a delicate delight I’d carry anywhere. I wonder what if it came with sounds of you doing what you do, us strolling idly side by side. My heart and eyes to the heavens, thankful, seeing now with more light in my life how my pursuit of adventure is now a pursuit shared with you. Making the best of a perfect day, the view, still and moving, keeps me glued to a sailboat blue chair on the shore. Eyes heavy, soft with joy yet with all of this beauty, I find myself drifting toward memory, toward want. Drifting— back to you.
Even in the presence of everything— sunrise, wind, ocean, stillness— there is a tether to the one who isn’t there.
It doesn’t take much. A quiet moment, a soft breeze, the colour of the sky. And suddenly, you’re not just here. You’re with them. Or at least, pulled in their direction.
This poem sits in that subtle, undeniable pull.
Thanks for taking this three-poem journey with me. If one of the pieces stayed with you, I’d love to know.
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