Eleven Days of Rain by Anne Selden Annab

Eleven Days of Rain

Eleven days of rain
drop by drop, drizzle...
it fills our earth
floods the stream
with wide brown rippling-
pulls green plants,
and sticks like snakes rush
through currents.
Eleven days of rain.
Polished worms promenade
on the wet pavement.
Drop by drop drizzle-
step off into the soup
of our lawn
luxuriant grass grown
in sinking mud.
Eleven days of rain,
of twilight.
A brown bluejay
plucks and pulls out
a long reluctant worm.
The ground sucks my steps.
Pulls me into
as the worm
is pulled out of...
Eleven days of rain-
the darkness gulps.

November 1989 Pages from the Fountain, Fall Issue; Zander Press