from And Don’t Come Back, published in 2021.
Like the Wind Blowing
Man
holding two pies boxed up and stacked
a banana balanced on top
carries them in one hand
leaves the store in a hurry.
Glass door slides open
almost not quick enough for him
he shoots through it on a diagonal
scooting across the parking lot when
the wind blows off his hat
he makes a grab for it but
it goes. The pies and banana wobble.
I see him hesitate
take a step to pursue
stop
decide.
He grasps the food with both hands.
1/20/20
Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That? 
I love this –I saw a little movie in my mind. I hope he got a warm greeting from someone when he got wherever with the pies (and banana).
Thank you. I choose to believe he ate the banana in the car to tide him over to get himself to the party and then the pies are greeted with cheers because, well, pies are! And the hat is forgotten forever. In fact, he opens his Pollyanna gift and there is a new one, how about that? Or dear, I am getting really too into this story.
I like it, and I choose to believe that’s exactly how it happened.