Summer Rain – v2

A break in the heat
away from the cutting edge,
no thunder, no lightning,
Just rain, warm rain
falling near dusk
falling on eager ground
steaming blacktop
Onto hungry plants
thirsty, yearning
turning toward the clouds
Cooling, soothing rain
splashing in sudden puddles
catching in open screens
that certain smell
of summer rain


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Edited August 13, 2012
“Summer Rain – v2”
of earlier poem, “Summer Rain”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/08/summer-rain.html
written August 4, 2006 8:35
and edited 10:57
This poem was read on the Allegheny Front radio show
http://alleghenyfront.org/
for August 11, 2012
http://www.alleghenyfront.org/story.html?storyid=201208091728140.804177
It is at about 26:55 of the program.

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