Trying Not To Be Too Sunny
The wet cement of elephant skin
pours along an African plain,
building bulk like
those thunderheads in the sky.
I wish it’d rain.
The afternoon turns
monotone
with nothing much to do but
laundry – sheets and
towels ready to mop a sheet
of rain that does not come.
Washing, washing everywhere,
but no pachyderms
pour from that cloud – now as
heavy-laden as a load of unwashed
clothes or a basket of unsent prayers.
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