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I agree, & also with Lawrence about the final line. Especially liked this turn & sound image: listening to rain, percussive on the furnace pipe. Doug > On Jun 20, 2017, at 11:08 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Yes, it is very fine. > I am not sure that you need that final and separate line. I think the poem > is saying that all the way through > > L > > On 20 June 2017 at 17:22, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> I like this very much, Sharon. Reciprocal weather and personal reality. >> Very fine. Sheila >> >> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 8:40 AM, sharon brogan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> You leave and then >>> >>> it rains and rains. >>> >>> Flood warnings >>> >>> for Ovando, Seeley >>> >>> Garnet, Greenough, >>> >>> Clearwater. The garden >>> >>> >>> >>> glistens, glitter on lilac >>> >>> leaves in shafts of sun. >>> >>> I sit alone on the wooden >>> >>> bench, hood up, smoking, >>> >>> listening to rain, percussive >>> >>> on the furnace pipe. This old >>> >>> >>> >>> body hums. My knee aches >>> >>> and I try to remember where >>> >>> I put the cane. I remind myself: >>> >>> weather changes. This land >>> >>> will be dry again. There will >>> >>> be drought. >>> >>> >>> >>> Come back. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> sharon brogan >>> http://www.sbpoet.com >>> http://www.sbpoet.net >>> http://smallpoems.sbpoet.net >>> 406.578.1788 >>> >> Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress). Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). Listen. If (UofAPress): I go down to the Twilight Arcade and watch the Martian invaders, already appalled by our language, pointing at what they want. Bill Manhire