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Saturday, June 7, 2014

A rain so fierce * 6/7/14


A rain so fierce to talk about it now.      
It was, to open your eyes, in the middle
of a first pass in a car wash of a rain.      
To describe it looking back,
it was between a loosely gathering
water swell falling and meeting up
with a ground bound water spray surging.
This shower, what it lacked in overwhelm,
was well outweighed with slashing splatter
and swashbuckling spray.      
Its sound built to an engulfing crescendo      
warming up through the familiar
of leaf pelted drumming octaves     
to a presence pushing on distorting time,     
burying rhythms into a violent overwhlem
of a drowning droning hum.
The tiniest of tree leaves attempted
a dodge-ball style for fending off heavy drops
by down dipping to lose them.      
Larger leaves took the pouring shots face up,      
then waggled in wind aided ways,      
ditching water as if by the ladle-fulls.      
The largest leaves conspired with
their elder sibling branches
to up and down bob and windy weave
negotiating motions
against water's sheer weightiness.      
The winds themsleves were mercenaries
for any act who'd have them.
As for the trees      
from twigs to limbs to trunks,      
it was nature-imitating nature.
Trees seemed to replicate the lattice look
of rivers flooding down a mountain,      
complete to scale,
with elevation drops displayed
in lop-gushing waterfalls
from overhanging brims
pushing the limits of viscous attachment.       
Nevertheless rivers were to scale.      
It was a fast flooding chinese-fire-drill
as drops raced down all the trees.      
It was a rain so fierce,
that the next time,
I want to find myself,
blessedly in just this kind
of a cloudburst of a rain,
sensously, as a tree . . .

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