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Downpour, June 2009
not rain
shards of mirror
fall from the sky fall
through earth
a failure of belief
sun's betrayal a storm beyond
reason tells me
let go this goose-
step march legs high
and strong but headed wrong
box the thing to the ground
turn around live
Live
not rain this is
forgetting pieces
of glass cutting
the pool blue symmetry
drops nettling
the surface
not rain this is
bodies falling
plane exploding their horror
to fall out of the sky
to watch their children
break—
nightmare rain enters me
if I allow can't stop its
stealth approach
the following sonic boom—sit
here in rain
torrents beat the courtyard
panic and grace crack me open
thunder—
the unremitting sound of this
fractures
I am not me
I am outpour
this rain
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