Thursday, July 19, 2012

And the rain falls on the just and the unjust





At a quarter past yesterday,
I got up to make water,
a fragment of light flashed
behind the window shade –
couldn’t be, I thought,
then thunder rolled.
A patter on the chimney cover,
I opened the back door,
and stepped out.
As I nearly dodged between
the drops,
the sky flashed,
and one thunder away,
rain fell
to the dark, hot earth.
Doubting still,
I returned to bed,
And it became an
inch and three-quarters
by morning,
and the sky burned blue
yet again.

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