I am comforted, drawn to the sounds of rainfall that echo our loss.
Enveloped in prose, A petal lands with a tick. Nature’s clock keeps time.
The slow-ticking hand. Each falling leaf and petal Returns me to this.
An angel’s wing or snow-draped leaf, she drifts downstream, slipping beneath me.
sycamore leaf that waits on my pedal: a note? or are you resting?
Why run from the rain? Do you hear the earth complain? Or the plants or fish?
As far as my ears can reach, i hear them murmur. Too many voices.
Each drop promises a rhythm. But by thousands they become a blur.
‘rat-a-tat!’ they drum: the sound of a million fingers of water.