Category: rain
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after the rain
This morning you don’t know whether to enjoy the blue sky reflected in the puddle of the parking lot or lament the rust colored leaves and fast food wrapper floating in the muck 12-11-19
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Noah’s haiku
last night it rained – wet today it will rain, again weekend forecast – wet (repeat until Asheville becomes beachfront property) 11-15-19
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The quietude of wet
3 am, dishes washed clothes in dryer butter in coffee come sit and watch night from my porch smell the wet of moldy leaves damp soil and warm coffee the frost of autumn comes late in the South and that’s okay light rain drips – sparkles in trees asphalt can’t suppress crushed stone’s glisten only…
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Waiting
in the dusk before dawn fog halos street lights water drips from trees two students wait on corner for the school bus to come I wait for a friend to stop by for coffee rain waits for no one 10-29-19
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Bentz’s birthday party
On Bentz’s 66th birthday we stood under umbrellas in the rain black plastic covered music speakers Red Shack Pickers played on a covered stage On Bentz’s 66th birthday no one danced barefoot in the mud but a frog leaped about in wet grass and disappeared under the stage On Bentz’s 66th birthday some gave up…
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The sleepy sog of Sunday
Rain came and cooled the woods lone deer stands in your yard, finds nothing and walks down the street oblivious to road etiquette and traffic signs No one plays basketball in the rain dog walkers with rain coats, boots and umbrellas smokers exiled to porches watch the rain pour in sheets from the edge of…
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Light rain
Light rain dim light of autumn Birds are quiet geese honk overhead In the distance a car alarm complains Every morning the sun sleeps in later When rain ends I will rake leaves Without being asked and think of my parents 10-16-19
My husband's poetry 