Leland Seese
A Walk Home from the School Bus Stop, November 9, 1967, 3:43:34 p.m., PST
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.
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Leland Seese's poems appear in RHINO, Juked, rust + moth and many other journals. He and his wife live in Seattle with six foster-adopted and bio children they have launched into adulthood.