{a year of smiles}

 

The world’s a smile

and we are smiling inhabitants

 

with people smiles

 

free-candy smiles

smarty-pants smiles

snotty smiles

top-of-the-Ferris-wheel smiles

 

hi-there smiles

 

joyful smiles

 

well-hidden I-know-you-saw-me smiles

half-hearted winter’s-coming smiles

 

you’ve-got-to-be-kidding smiles

victorious smiles

refrigerator’s-full smiles that make you smile

in a midnight milk and cookie sort of way

uncomfortable welfare-line smiles that never fit right

 

not-in-the-mood-to-smile smiles that never reach the eyes

 

sweaty smiles

 

smirking smiles

toothless smiles

sunny smiles

sneaky smiles that want to be grins

 

remember-the-time smiles

 

smiling at people who walk in the rain

 

laugh-with-me smiles and cry-with-me-too smiles

smiley-button smiles

 

life smiling

you smiling at me smiling

one smile …

smiles in 2011.