in the shadow

i saw a woman
today standing
in the long cold
shadow of her house
spraying from a
garden hose at
her new laid lawn
of thick green sod.
and the wind blew
hard against the
clear stream of
water that rushed
from the tangled
hose at her feet.
she was staring
into the sky,
mindless of the water
that sprayed
outward. lost in
thought. adrift
on this fall day.