I Love...

(inspired by "I Love..." on Kooky Tuason's yet unreleased Romancing Venus)

Waking up after a delicious dream, finding the threads of consciousness on my pillow, along with the smell of my hair and yesterday's cologne

Dreaming about paintings of live silver fish swimming in clear water

Opening the refrigerator door and letting its light warm me from the inside

Pounding my hip bones with my fists

Peeling pears

Eating pears

Eating pears in pie

With vanilla ice cream on top

Reading text messages in the morning from fellow insomniacs, restless friends

Driving through deserted Manila on late nights

The click of my three-inch heels on polished marble floors

My long red dress

The earrings my grandmother bought me from Africa

My ratty blue sneakers

Running so fast that my entire body becomes drenched in sweat

Boxing invisible (and otherwise) opponents in the ring, a jab here and a jab there, swift upper cut, bob and weave, bob and weave

Dancing for hours and hours

Gospel music (I get joy, joy, thinking about what He's done for me...)

Getting massages

Giving massages

Writing "I Love" lists

Loving

Love