A Walk Home from the School Bus Stop

Wear the rain,
cow-eyed soft and wet,
kind as flannel.

Wear it happy
as a worm moving through
its dirt tuxedo.

Roadside
with no sidewalk.
Rivulet of water

coursing down
the channel,
shovel-dug.

Set a single
pine needle to
race the rapids.

Can it skirt
the tiny logjam
in an eddy?

Soaked,
untroubled,
follow it

the length of
several neighbors’
houses.

Your life
a pine needle,
a giddy eddy,

halfway home.Wear the rain,
cow-eyed soft and wet,
kind as flannel.

Wear it happy
as a worm moving through
its dirt tuxedo.

Roadside
with no sidewalk.
Rivulet of water

coursing down
the channel,
shovel-dug.

Set a single
pine needle to
race the rapids.

Can it skirt
the tiny logjam
in an eddy?

Soaked,
untroubled,
follow it

the length of
several neighbors’
houses.

Your life
a pine needle,
a giddy eddy,

halfway home.