i miss you but being idle and giving my body to the healing mode i wake gradually and i'm looking more slowly and seeing things like the little details in annie albers' tapestries and hearing the voices of martin luther king and james baldwin and alexandria ocasio-cortez intimate and nuanced. there is more subtlety than our harried lives allow. i'm seeing the feeling and passion woven into their speech and works. my skin is itching now but i believe it's with the will to be free of the illness that's been occupying me.