13 things Noor Hassan from Seattle, WA actually loves
- A perfectly pulled espresso, 18 grams in, 36 out, 28 seconds
- Rain on the skylight above my desk
- Mary Oliver, especially The Summer Day
- The view of Rainier from Kerry Park when the clouds break
- A poem that takes three readings to land
- Pike Place Market at 6am, the flower sellers setting up
- Elliott Smith's Either/Or
- The moment a regular walks in and you start their drink before they order
- Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds
- My mother's cardamom tea, which she makes when I call home
- The belief that making someone's morning coffee is a small act of love
- Sufjan Stevens, specifically Carrie & Lowell
- The last line of a poem you've been working on for months, finally arriving