Frenzy

Holiday frenzy—

a parcel-laden shopper

takes the wrong bus home.

Rain

Little brown sparrow,

how will you find your way home

through the driving rain?

Making her way home,

an old woman taps her cane

on the wet pavement.

Yellow butterfly,

how will you find your way home

in this driving rain?

Near the garden gate

a snail making its way home

stops to rest awhile.

rainy winter evening—

still seven more miles to go

until I get home

first week of winter—

clutching my grandson’s left hand

for our long walk home