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Runoff
Before rain, before rain lacquered the slick trunk of the sycamore, before rain glossed the cold grass behind the forsythia, before it doubled the owl hunch, crow bank, butsy sparrow, before it doubled dusk and lamp, before rain tamped the anger it kindled the ache, before rain halved the visible it spirited the late harsh, before rain, before rain bled the edge there were crosswords, coffee mug, slippers, the window up, the radio off, the radio off, the window down, there were backhoe scooped slabs, trash truck hydraulics, dump truck’s throaty idle, before it got up a rain it got up a smooth runoff, soil-soothe drip and bluster affair, got up a glister puddle, pock and glisten, before it gets up a rain let cloud knot, let cloud knuckle, before rain dissipates lash, brow, lid, before rain dissipates coat, button, blouse, before rain dissipates the waiting. |  |
