This evening features
the soft conversation
between the stove and the roof,
their metals interacting respectively
with fire and rain,
a series of clicks and taps

I was thinking this morning
how little is random,
how hard it is, for instance,
to generate random numbers  –
in this case the sounds
are not random either,
though they defy prediction
as they lead me, pitter pattering,
towards sleep.

©Wendy Mulhern
March 14, 2021