I wonder what I saw in your eyes I mean I saw the kind of greenish brown people call hazel and when I looked more closely I thought I detected some yellow was it perhaps concern or maybe anger but you're too gentle for that so it was probably annoyance or frustration at how thick as a brick I must have seemed when you were telling me sense and I was still wondering what you were teaching me as if I really had to work for the meaning you had arranged on a plate before me it wasn't that I was putting on the dog of feigned disbelief of little betrayals of bright hopes dashed to blue smoke and smithereens enchantment can be that way just for a moment I fancied I caught in your eye a wisp of magic the silver mist of a missing mirror unconsulted but sill serviceable between its black cracks was it myself I saw or was it just my imagination playing tricks with my longing if I lingered any longer I would have been st...

Give us this Day is the online creative journal of Kurtis Kitagawa, PhD (Edinburgh), MPhil (Oxford), MA (Chicago), BA First Class Honours (Calgary), who, withal, considers himself a student of history. Check daily for freshly composed essays and offbeat creative writing inspired by a life spent in universities, government, and business. Job offers gratefully accepted. Alternative facts welcome, and will not be burned. Nor will their ashes be used as eye shadow!