On returning from cremation

Ventilation
(after returning from mother’s cremation)

On the road returning
after cremation a dog-
frenzied or understandable or left sad
in the red wood coppice-

pound upon my dusk
filled with choke
behind his drawl
reflected in certain
and appealing voice,

then hurried and riotous,
an autumnal wind
quieted him ,

and then,

a brief shower.