Wayne Atherton

not another song about the rain
    (with opening lines from Leonard Cohen)

And all the rain falls down amen /
on the works / of last year’s man
rain expands its vocabulary to the sea
        learns salt
        born in fleeting mass of cloud
        affecting and effecting mood
        building flood
        making mud from dirt
rain by rivulet
wiper blade rain smear on windshield
rain on roof
rain on hoof
recycled rain
rain spinning off bicycle tire
fire hissing at rain
lovers kissing in the rain
        licking rain off a lover’s lips
        breasts
        thighs
        there in that little hollow just above your navel
        rainforest of glistening curly hairs...
poem getting distracted by the erotic implications of rain
movie set rain
red and blue neon rain puddle reflection
night rain
listening to Coltrane rain
the rain in Maine falls mainly on the weekend
Pemigewasset river rain
Pemaquid rain
Indian burial ground rain
blood running with rain through civil war death trench
rainbow!
you can never get rained on by the same rain twice



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