Rain

Lie in the forest
A bright crackle of light

Boom! Cannonading between mountains
The pianississimo of first raindrops

The bird-step pace increases
Mind not discerning patterns

Concentrate
The smell of moistened earth

Redolent of the taste of ocean-caught fish
A taste-smell that is the living earth
Perhaps of life itself

The rain drums its undecodable pattern
The forest breathes its cryptic scent

Lie there and bathe in the wild gifts
The mind thinks of nothing

I turn to touch my lover...

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