Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Let Rain Be Rain (poem) by Danusha Laméris

Let rain be rain.
    Let wind be wind.
Let the small stone
    be the small stone.

May the bird
    rest on its branch,
the beetle in its burrow.

May the pine tree
    lay down its needles.
The rockstone, its petals.

It's early. Or it's late.
    The answers
to our questions
    lie hidden
in acorn, oyster, the seagull's
    speckled egg.

We've come this far, already.
    Why not let breath
be breath. Salt be salt.

How faithful the tide
    that has carried us---
that carries us now---
    out to sea
and back.

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