These Days

These days the bottom falls out of us
at unexpected times.

It could be a good thing,
dropping us through
our soggy cardboard efforts
to hold ourselves together,
down to the waiting, changing land,
the rain and all the spreading seeping
and the tender sparkles
of returning morning sun.

©Wendy Mulhern
June 9, 2018

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