Maybe my Gift of a Year is starting to sink in – since this gift arrived last week while driving Ella to school. Plus, I finally finished the baby’s birthday sweater. Sweet.

February

I saw it this morning -
the dark clouds mounting
the sky, and the sun climbing up
anyway.
The wind that blew and blew,
without love or malice.
The rain pounded on us,
and suddenly the road
looked like a river flowing
into the fields, into the sky,
and what was true -
me in my car, driving alone
or all of us,
in the river together,
heading home.

(c) Adrie Lester 2013