Day 2 of @Morningmist Poetry thing! What is it? Nevrmind! I'm just glad I didn't forget!

OK, I found out all of my saved poems are too long! It offered a strange situation where I had to find an old file and search through it...but I did it! I found one for today at , and shall find more of my favorites scattered around in the next few days.

OK, honestly, I haven't thought about this one very often, but I like it. When I first read it, I was struck first by the imagery it offers. The word choices made are refreshing and just, it feels creative. Uh...enjoy?

Contains some lightly referenced material that could be upsetting to some :)

Rain By Don Paterson May 19, 2008 I love all films that start with rain: rain, braiding a windowpane or darkening a hung-out dress or streaming down her upturned face; one long thundering downpour right through the empty script and score before the act, before the blame, before the lens pulls through the frame to where the woman sits alone beside a silent telephone or the dress lies ruined on the grass or the girl walks off the overpass, and all things flow out from that source along their fatal watercourse. However bad or overlong such a film can do no wrong, so when his native twang shows through or when the boom dips into view or when her speech starts to betray its adaptation from the play, I think to when we opened cold on a rain-dark gutter, running gold with the neon of a drugstore sign, and I’d read into its blazing line: forget the ink, the milk, the blood— all was washed clean with the flood we rose up from the falling waters the fallen rain's own sons and daughters and none of this, none of this matters.