Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Rain

When I rain
I rain on plastic tents
stretched over heating vents
where the homeless sleep on cold nights
in the cold, cold cities.

In southern towns
I pound tin roofs—
slanting shanty roofs
across the railroad tracks.
There I drum a slum song
to children asleep in one bed.

Under the bridge,
an old man in a dirty sleeping bag
slips into a drunken doze.
He dreams of better days
when he was a young buck,
dancing like rain
on top of the world.


© Peg Latham,  1993

Rain in Kolkata
Photo by Monster eagle
from Wikimedia Commons



1 comment:

jean said...

Thanks for posting, Tony!