Arriving Home

it's where
all the sounds are familiar
and even the spaces where
one oak floor board
edges into another board is known
and the scene outside the window
could be a painting--a rare print, the spot
where you know a man walks his Alaskan husky,
where the trash man pulls his truck over
where the mailman walks to your
black mailbox on its granite pedestal
and deposits the day's catalogs and bills