Stay The Course

Impossible to 

climb into your head

shift into reverse and 

drive the battered machine

of you through the drifts of snow 

in this unexpected and 

luminous winter

I’m so glad

that I continue to be 

surprised by the world 

gobsmacked again 

to find another circus tent

of distractions 

placed down for me

here where the pristine drifts 

have fallen 

under the dark trees

why trouble myself

to try to steer 

when the universe is busy

opening all the doors

until the snow about us 

is trembling and falling 

from the shadowed branches 

better to enjoy this state

of glorious bewilderment 

and stay the course

because I like knowing 

that we don’t know

where we’re going 

to end up.