Thursday, June 13, 2019

rain

into the banter
of back and forth

a little rain
must fall

it starts with
clouds of concern
over misspoken words

mists up
into misunderstandings
and half spoken
explanations

interrupted over and
over again

then a flood of
furious insecurity
ends all talk
prematurely

leaving us to
pretend the storm
never happened

what's the forecast
for the rest of
our lives?

will we always
look forward
to sun and omissions

or are grey conditions
the only thing
we'll see

weathering you
weathering me

(storms)







1 comment:

  1. then a flood of
    furious insecurity
    ends all talk

    - love those lines of perfection - and in the "weathering" I find references to meteorology (storms); seamanship, as in weathering a headland (navigating around danger); and also geology (erosion). All three may be conceived as metaphors of the subject. A connotation of the conjunction "whether" also arises - could there be two minds with but a single thought : "whethering"? The concept that the same thought is doubt, belies the original meaning of the quotation.

    Working the words with magic, again . . . .

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