RAIN

Splish Splosh go my goloshes in the rain, rain, rain

 Calico cat tip-toeing across the shiny, black, asphalt

Running fast, then slow, shivering she darts in between droplets of colorful rain

Swirls of magenta, blue and purple bead up beneath my feet

Cold  and shivering knees

splattered with rain and tiny goose pimples

Proudly they stand on my bare and exposed skin 

Winds blow, sprays the rain towards my face

Wet and cold 

Warm and dry underneath my rain clothes

Tiny drops of rain dew bounce and settle on my thin brows

 Red-burning, wet and frozen

Stiff are my hands 

Numbed fingers reach for the edges of my knitted sleeves

fingertips, pull and stretch, woven colored yarn wrapped around my fingertips

down and stretching tight over my burning cold and wet hands

Spinning black tires race around the corner alongside the curb 

The sidewalk sizzles with a spray of  RAIN RAIN RAIN

I am drenched.  My senses are stirred with the smell of rain on redwood bark that line the crooked 


sidewalk and pathways

Two birds fly overhead


Swiftly they fly and gracefully they land atop a naked and weathered Birchwood branch 


drip drip drip and rolling beads of Rain Rain Rain...

Noisily rain drops into metal roof gutters 


In a hurry...........rushing through pipe drains and along painted side panels of houses...


drip drop drip drop atop my colorful and transparent vinal umbrella

A melody swirls around my head so I skip and turn 


It's fun to kick the rain

Up goes my umbrella in to the rainy air

Down in a heartbeat in comes sailing 


Turning, spinning, rolling,  from wire to wire bouncing over pot holes and pools

Standing closer and closer yet 


I dare not get completely wet


A mirror of the Heavens I see

Trees lumbering and standing tall


birds swiftly swoop across the sky


Oh look! There's ME

Raising my arm and waving hello 

I see my reflection

Isn't this GRAND 

I can see the WHOLE WORLD in puddles like these


Puddles reflecting people like ME 


when the RAIN comes down

I look Up