This Cold Rain No Longer Annoys Me

His puzzling acts
(whatever their inscrutable motivation)
have brought this bright shining smile
to my side,
a graceful runner,
a new fellow traveler,
one to share this long
(and sometimes inscrutable) road. 

For that,
I will always be grateful.

A hundred blackbirds wheel
and suddenly land
in the drenched earth,
acting as one.