A soft spring sunset
filters through park tree leaves.
Travelers fill the roads, heading home
to late dinners and early bedtimes,
prepping to complain about Monday morning.
Time is seized by pets and children,
and the night’s calm settles like a
flannel blanket,
or a hug,
or a shroud.
And just for a while,
the veneer of normalcy
seems authentic.
Beyond Panic 