Plush Toy: The Extra Ordinary Sheep

Plush Toy: The Extra Ordinary SheepCounting sheep, now soft enough to hug. Round as a cloud and twice as soft, this little sheep is built for the slow drift toward sleep. The body is a pillowy swirl of fluffy white, and the face is a smooth coal black snout with two wide awake stitched eyes and floppy ears tipped in white. Four skinny legs dangle below, each finished with a tiny black pom that bobs when you carry her. Set her on the nightstand to keep watch, or tuck her into the crook

it turns getting dressed into the smallest pleasure of the morning

tea-cooling

the way real flowers crowd a windowsill on a slow Sunday

Underneath it all

and frothy milkshakes float across a deep teal-blue

Look closely and a quiet pattern reveals itself: rows of softly interlocking links tracing a tonal trellis across a muted sage-green ground

easy in the wash after every muddy adventure

Clean cream that competes with nothing

Class is in session

flecked with light the way a cozy sweatshirt is

tails curling

Soft against the skin and tough through every wash