Saturday morning, the Park and Ride
is sunlight, scattered cars,
skeletal lines of parking spaces,
and a flock of small black birds
exploding as the bus pulls out
and dissipates
before we’re on the highway.
This is happening all over
and the sunlight, somehow, is calm.
As if it had expected nothing less.
Yet Another Miracle by JB Mulligan
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