Poetry by John Grey
THE BLESSING OF AFTER-RAIN
The rain has stopped.
The sky is clearing.
It’s too late for the sun
but the moon,
full and glowing gold,
does what it can
to illuminate the world.
I step outside,
breathe the newly minted air,
look up to where the stars,
in various states of gleaming,
declare the universe open
for heads titled backward,
eyes wide enough
to encompass everything up there.
I must thank the rain for this.
So much in life is intensified
by time spent with its opposite.
CHORUS
Birds sing a chorus.
And the wind orchestrates.
We shimmer in the throat of song,
the finches that come by daily,
the occasional red-winged blackbird,
the mourning doves whose grief is purely ornamental
for don't they hog the meatiest of seeds at the feeder,
and aren't their wings wide and light enough
to ride the praise and silence of our breath.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. His latest books are Between Two Fires, Covert and Memory Outside The Head are available through Amazon. His upcoming work will be in
Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Amazing Stories and River and Sout.
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