Rain must be exhausted
after so many days
of falling. Better to fall
with it, mind the gaps

between drops that shuffle
like tired feet after running
all day and all night than
to take time for an umbrella.

Time will not stop the rain.
In the end you will find yourself
drenched in it, gaps or no. Step into
a luxury hotel that can stop rain and time

falling for now. Tracy Chapman sings
revolution sounds like a whisper. Sounds
like nothing happened here but days of time
falling hard and a flood with no rainbow.

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Watching sparrows
snatch flying things
I cannot see
from air so thick
they swim in it,
it is hard to think of them
as death threats. This patio
is insect-free. The birds
beating wings fast as they can
to be still for the moment
necessary to pluck an
insect from flight
are virtuosos
of fly fishing,
a morning floor show
worth the risk.

They tap dance
on the translucent roof
while mayflies chant
there can be no pleasure
where there is no danger.

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