From the alcoves southern face we watch heavy rain drown the driveway divots   the downpour dimples and pocks those flood puddles   like endless tadpoles needling the water’s surface to gulp air with silver smiles   concentric saturnian circles widen as the...

Humidity thick distant mountains gone   wall of dark rain ten miles long   the hilltop gives way to infinite gloom   dressed in white linen I’ll be there soon   car tires splash splutter held aloft   gauze not down a road but across   anchored in...