“Love Note for the Rough Days”

It’s Poem-a-Day/Post-a-Day Week! No editing, no perfectionism, no publisher/submission-managers mediating the place of art in public.

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Day 3

A first draft from 10 days ago, Hawk Campground, Marin Headlands, under the cypress rain

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Love Note for the Rough Days

Rest easy
in that storm heart, those
thunderheads gave it to you for
watering roots and
shaking bones into
dancing.

Sometimes it’s dark inside the
beating water of the sky.

Rest easy
in that storm heart you got, let
relief crack open the way
summer breathes in Georgia
when something bigger
than human hands decides
there will be no more fires set, no more
fires allowed to burn.

The way lungs
fill with electric ease
when it finally finally
finally rains.