LEAF

 
A raspberry red leaf –
the only one – all others
still green in mid-October.
Why?  Do you really think
God is in on such a surprise?
Do you really think God is in
on the death of a grandmother
two doors down? I wonder
about these things – like the new
baby I saw in Macy’s today.
Yes – but I wonder about deaths.

 

                                                                                        © Andy Costello, Reflections 2021