thought I knew what rain was
after a month of it fell past
like one could know by how it sloughs across tile
or how it brightens the leaves of peaches
carries rocks growling into the folds of mountains
finding the ocean as if down the sides of the earth
I thought rain was everything already washed away
in the same way that a tsunami could embrace the city
how rain hits corrugated metal hardest on the islands
yet seems at home evaporating off concrete
in a once lost kind of way
and how it falls on the dead
the same way it meets scattered seeds
searching for a way back up the mountain
to touch the fiber of all
if only for a moment
About the Creator
Timothy James Lane
Sea Ghost
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