Necropolis

Summer Rains

Summer brings oppressive heat, sticky sweat

Then come the rains, reducing all to mucky, mushy mud

Pelting hot tin roofs in buckets, gushing out of the gutters

Dumping, darkening, dampening all, breaking branches

The rain pours down & down on me, dripping, dropping, sopping

I kneel in the wet, tall grass, tilt my head back, put my hands up, open my mouth for the water

Let it permeate, percolate, penetrate me, completely

And the tears from bleary eyes, just like the rain coming down from the skies

Rains flooding the plains, overflowing the drains, Piscean pains

I am dirtied and cleaned all at once, all at once