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POEMS
Created: 9th May, 2022

Some Other Names for Rain

I call you the eyelash rinser

and windowpane racer.

 

I call you cloud soup.

 

I call you the tongue tickler,

sock seeper,

hair hassler

and ankle surpriser

(when paired with a passing car).

 

I call you sky spittle.

 

I call you leaf polisher.

 

I call you the pavement drummer

and umbrella summoner.

 

I call you a brigade of micro water bombs

having a skirmish with the lawn.

 

I call you the puddle artist

who will only draw circles.

 

I call you a sprinkle of ocean,

far from home.

 

© Kate Wakeling, from Cloud Soup, The Emma Press, 2021

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