I have rain on the brain.<\/p>\n
This is not an unusual state of affairs in southern Sweden, where it rains a LOT. The Pacific Northwest ain’t got nothing on us. The saying, “April showers bring May flowers” was actually invented in Sweden, but the original goes more like this: “January, February, March, April, May and sometimes June showers…” It rains an average of 164 days a year in Sweden. More in the south, I’m pretty sure. My fingertips are permanently raisined and we won’t even talk about my hair. So without further ado, I present 3 excellent poems about rain.<\/p>\n
What I Did on a Rainy Day
\nby May Swenson<\/b> <\/p>\n
Breathed the fog from the valley
\nInhaled its ether fumes
\nWith whittling eyes peeled the hills
\nto their own blue and bone
\nSwallowed piercing pellets of rain
\ncaught cloudsful in one colorless cup
\nExhaling stung the earth with sunlight
\nstruck leaf and bristle to green fire
\nTurned tree trunks to gleaming pillars
\nand twigs to golden nails
\nWith one breath taken into the coils
\nof my blood and given again when vibrant
\nI showed who’s god around here<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
Rain
\nby Diana Der Hovanessian<\/b><\/p>\n
Rain undoes the stone
\nunfastens grass.
\nNothing is permanently
\nattached to bone.
\nNeither epoxy
\nnor promises last.<\/p>\n
But I keep those inflections
\nyou telephoned to wear
\nwith your frown on rainy days.
\nThere is another you
\nI have invented from your name
\nand cemented to my bones forever.<\/p>\n
Let rain say nothing stays.<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
Buckets
\nby Ron Padgett<\/b><\/p>\n
Of rain
\nhit the buildings
\nbut we in our apartments
\nare kept dry by the buildings they’re in<\/p>\n
The rain is rolling off the buildings
\nand bouncing off
\nand the roofs keep the rain from
\ngetting us wet<\/p>\n
the ceiling is not letting any water in<\/p>\n
it goes spat spat spat
\non the windowledge
\ntrying to get in<\/p>\n
the windowpane is streaked with rain
\ntrying to come in<\/p>\n
to go everywhere<\/p>\n
to make everything wet<\/p>\n
I am lying in my bed
\nhead near the window<\/p>\n
aware of all this
\nthinking How Great<\/p>\n
We Win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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