these rainy nights we contend and pray
the ceiling holds; keep faith in the bones
of this old house, a warm cup of tea,
fighting a cough and a chill -- October
sweeps in riding on a blanket
of multicolor leaves caught
in the process
of falling
Tag Archives: rain
each moment each rain drop
each moment, its own morning
the rain redeems nothing this time of year
it is a thousand hands of god
smacking your face
so you will finally
wake
up
o summer rain
rumble of thunder, cicadas sing
o summer rain: humidity’s promise kept
— for once — when lightning flashes
we lie and try to tell ourselves
it falls the same on the unjust, too