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Rain, beautiful, cooling
so  pacifying,  relentless.
Crowded  green trees dripping
tears  and  dew-drops,
spattering  in  shiny  puddles
around  bricks,  sticks  and
bits  of  floating  paper.
Amphibians  blink.
The  gnome  carelessly  throws  a  cast
hoping  a  tadpole - for - tea   passes  by.
Red  hat  in  the  downpour  shining.
Bending,  sharp  leaves, dripping,
Rivulets,  rivers,  cascading  little
shiny  reflections.
Chaos,  tiny  crashes,
splashes  across  this  small   water.
A  remote  storm  between  distant  lands.
A  ship,  smallest of  ships,
yawing  into  a  hard  tempest.
The  deck  angled  steeply,
still  for  a  moment,  then  slowly
rolling  to  starboard  and  somehow
surviving  these  depths,  here
on  this enfolded  water
where  amphibians  blink  in  the  rain.
I’m  again  in  my  lonely  garden.
Somehow  passed
the  depths  of  that  strange  deep
Frightening  sea.

 

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◄ ( excerpt ) In the rain.

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