GROCERY SHOPPING IN SHEDIAC NEW BRUNSWICK

Rain pelts the windows,
cascades down the eaves,
creates puddles in the parking lot
as cars roll up to the door, let out
a passenger, usually a woman,
many older with gray hair, no hat,
no raincoat or umbrella hustling inside
then the man drives off making
the turn back in line to the front door
where soon she’ll return pushing 
a cart or carrying an armload of bags
as he pops the trunk and she loads it up.
I’m sure when they drive away
she’s hopeful of less rain next Saturday.

Marc Swan lives in coastal Maine. Poems recently published in Gargoyle, Crannóg, Nerve Cowboy Anthology, Glimpse, among others. Tall-lighthouse press in London, England published two earlier collections: In a Distinct Minor Key (2007) and Simple Distraction (2009). In 2018, Sheila-Na-Gig Editions published  today can take your breath away. His latest collection, all it would take, was published by tall-lighthouse in 2020.