Just Rain Darling, Just Rain

Press my palm on

The glass of the window

It’s getting cold out 

As the nights get longer

Fog a flat grey above

Softening all the harsh

Jabs of sunlight

I’m sure it will

Become suffocating

In January, when I’m

Ready for spring

And hate to see you shiver

But today it’s like a

Favorite quilt in monochrome

I did think of going out

To sit at the bar and lean

Towards and away from you

All at once

Scold the sky for brooding

Just rain darling, just rain

I suppose the timing was 

Merely wrong today

So I sit by the window

Watch the glass

Warm beneath my fingertips

Imagine raindrops falling

Chasing each other

Down the mountainsides

Down my driveway

Into the storm drains 

Into an infinity of other

Unseen 

Places