Icy Run

Even though the snow has been gone for

a bit my trail remains icy in some spots.

Quite a few actually. So I turn around.

When my children were young, too young to

leave for any amount of time,

I ran before Mr.Fix-it left for work.

That meant I ran plenty in the dark.

I couldn’t see the ice. I ran on roads

then. On super icy mornings I would

turn around and go back to the house.

Sometimes I would wait till later in the

day. Often I would find the least icy

street and run back and forth on it.

At this house, I run up and down the driveway.

On one such morning the across the street

neighbor pulled his truck up at the end of the

driveway and hollered out,

“What are you running from?”