It has been awhile since we've had a summer day of rain, and I was hoping for such a day this weekend so my Sunday laziness could be nicely justified. Drizzle started this morning, slowly turned more steady then continued nearly all day, stopping just before dusk settled in. Waking to the sound of rain tops my list of ways to start the day, especially when an alarm has nothing to do with it.
Rain Travel
W.S. Merwin
I wake in the dark and remember
it is the morning when I must start
by myself on the journey
I lie listening to the black hour
before dawn and you are
still asleep beside me while
around us the trees full of night lean
hushed in their dream that bears
us up asleep and awake then I hear
drops falling one by one into
the sightless leaves and I
do not know when they began but
all at once there is no sound but rain
and the stream below us roaring
away into the rushing darkness
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