Poem: Sudden Rain

 

Sudden Rain

 

mountainous clouds

tumble to shove dunes of half-alive water,

uncertain with odd creatures

crashing in the froth and flux.

 

only slowly,

grievous as a phantom,

does color leach through the scene,

mad bottle-cap eyes

to punctuate the drab flotsam.

 

a pair of galoshes tromps through,

unaware of their lucky partnership

while they work in tandem

to tread the great grey purgatory 

which bears their splash, on and on ... 

 

until the gluttonous gutters 

hiss and snarl downward,

cowed into rustles near silence--

far away from the human trajectory, 

its emotional and sentient blows.

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Some arthritic effect in the front of the foot, damaged tendon/muscle in the back.  The only way to escape the pain is to write, play chess or computer games, or talk to other people.  Otherwise, I talk to myself and the pain is in the dialogue a lot.  "Here is life on planet Earth in all its travail and glory."