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18 July 2022

the rain again

Inside, rap on the speakers and two candles on my table.

Outside, the rush of wind transforms

into something else

and I stay still, listening.


Water descends

from the skies. Sound is made

when it hits surfaces: hard taps on the road

clangs and claps on tin roofs

muffled splashes from the trees.


Again and again I write the rain

this season. But I have hardly written

anything lately, just the wordless

pull of my breath, and then the

wordless exhale. I am, I am,

even when I don’t prove it.

I am, and that is enough 

for love, for joy, most of

all for aliveness.


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