the way it goes

the day got away on me
ran through the woods
leapt the lake
carrying a backpack
full of things not done

*Joanna M. Weston has had poetry, reviews, and short stories published in anthologies and journals for twenty-five years. Her middle-reader, Those Blue Shoes, published by Clarity House Press; and poetry,  A Summer Father, published by Frontenac House of Calgary.