This Evening   I like it like this — count me in for simple pleasures like this pause, this fine betweenness, this velvet horizon in the dimming   light, this dark unfolding over green mountain valleys, these misty forests haunted with twilight, contentment, peace unseen,   this sense that what I have is what I want, this pointless gratitude, this life, this limitless view from a hillside in Vermont.     © Michael Fleming Brattleboro, Vermont September 2019