This poem is taken from PN Review 251, Volume 46 Number 3, January - February 2020.
Rain Clouds and other poems
Rain Clouds
Rain clouds as they descend
over the hills, ragged
and somber,
make a kind of home
in the valley below.
Like a roof over a house
where a fire is burning
in the hearth
for someone who comes in
from the rain.
Or like our marriage –
year after year together
in the shelter of the foothills.
Rain sweeps across the road,
lifting branches, scattering leaves –
the end of summer.
It’s only later, afterwards,
...
Rain clouds as they descend
over the hills, ragged
and somber,
make a kind of home
in the valley below.
Like a roof over a house
where a fire is burning
in the hearth
for someone who comes in
from the rain.
Or like our marriage –
year after year together
in the shelter of the foothills.
Rain sweeps across the road,
lifting branches, scattering leaves –
the end of summer.
It’s only later, afterwards,
...
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