December 18, 2007

  • Tuesday, December 18, 2007

     The Daily News 
    rain 3 rain
    1  Ah, the rain.

    2  I have a sunroom which should be re-named a rain room. When the sky finally opens up in the night, the rain taps and rhymes and runs down the windows with winter lights reflecting in each drop.

    3  Why is there so much poetry in rain?

    4  It circles around the drainpipe and then runs delicately along the outside of the house with immediate precision, and little reason.

    5  Fear not; I won't even begin to try to describe what it describes on its own.

    6  I need to cover my toes, not because they all are cold, but because the cold has located my third toe in on each foot.

    7  The rain refuses to let me tell its story.

    8  So I'll just allow it to tell its own tales to the drizzling night.

    9  It's sadness is downright silly.

    10  We've all been there.

    11  Let it pour. It needs it.

    12  We need it. Rain. At long last.

    13  I had lost my umbrella, which I found the instant I bought a new one.

    14  So it goes.

    15  The new one is a spy one though.

    16  I think its handle hides a camera and a mic.

    17  So when it rains I could gather information.

    18  It sits in the entrance to my house, open on the floor. It hasn't moved.

    19  I think it's just a normal umbrella.

    20  Somehow it works sitting over there in its simplicity. I'll let it be.

    21  And the rain, which a moment ago played a furious symphony, just as suddenly stopped, a peaceful repose, and noticeable only a moment or two after its cessation.

    22  Everything has stopped except for the drops traveling down the windows at various speeds.

    23  It's quiet and still once more, like after a good cry.

    24  Cleansing.

    25  We needed it.  The rain.

    26  Still do.

    27  The Soul selects her own Society.
                                   ---Emily Dickinson

    28  Peace.

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    ~H~
     

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