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after the rain
May 21, 2008
Red Rain ~ Canon 30d
Just
after the downpour, in the early evening,
late sunlight glinting off the raindrops sliding
down the broad backs of the redbud leaves
beside the porch, beyond the railing, each leaf
bending and springing back and bending again
beneath the dripping,
between existences,
ecstatic, the souls grow mischievous, they break ranks,
swerve from the rigid V’s of their migration,
their iron destinies, down to the leaves
they flutter in among, rising and settling,
bodiless, but pretending to have bodies,
their weightlessness more weightless for the ruse,
their freedom freer, their as-ifs nearly not,
until the night falls like an order and
they rise on one vast wing that darkens down
the endless flyways into other bodies.
Nothing will make you less afraid.
~ Alan Shapiro
What a poem. Image shot last month in the bishop's garden just after a gentle rain.
Posted by susan at May 21, 2008 10:42 AM
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Makes me recall the book PEONY IN LOVE by Lisa See that I sent you................... when you have time, look into it.
Tulip is yummy.
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