ENTRE'ACTE

There has been a drought
For a long while.
Today it rained.

Great gleaming globs
Plopping onto the road
Bright crystals spearing the air,
Spotting the dust
On a car window,
Washing it clean.
Water, racing down into drains,
Frantic to ease
The suffering of dry earth.
 

Cold, wet, white hail
Gathering along fences
Seeping tenderly into arid cracks
Pretending to be snow.

I walked out into this rain,
Feeling gay and light hearted
And wonderfully wet.
The sky was clear,
A delicate gray,
Bright, clean, irridescent.
The never ending blue sky
Gone for a while.
But it will return.

Thunder rumbled
Far into the night,
Long after the rain had stopped.

Dawn Mc Donald
© November 2002

Midi: "Evening Star"
  (Tannhäuser)
Composer: Richard Wagner

Photo: "Rain Squall
By: Mal Haysom