Haiku, #13

Photo from Wikimedia Commons, taken by Matt Lewis in Minneapolis in 2013,
but it looks like Denver in December, 2015

"twenty degrees and snowing"

despite cold snow icy roads
he does not want help
he will ride his bike
i imagine him
sliding
falling
knocked unconscious
laying broken
next to an unseeing car
and i send mother prayers
that his world
will soon be
a little warmer
a little kinder
and a little less bumpy

(c) Carol Wilcox, 2015


"mother prayer"
through dark, cold, and ice,
my man child rides his bike,
dear world, please be kind.
(C) Carol Wilcox, 2015