Trickle Blue

Raindrops are not for collecting. They expire way too soon.

I keep my raindrops in a jar. Every time it rains I take a few drops from my windowsill and place them there. It's more than a fourth of the jar, too--since I spent almost 3 months collecting them. I wanted to keep them until I became 35 years old. But I knocked them off the table and broke the jar. The water inside smelled, and a shard of glass pierced a small of my leg.