Rain Herds

cloud horses
en Kata poetry series
-Stephanie Pope

herd a rainin’
in mourning
the wail’s in walls
softer’n
secret’n
silent calls

a flow like
rivers
buildin’ seas
a plead like
soft sounds
drippin’
breeze

heard drippin’
heard morning
beat upon pour
cry me a puddle
cry me a puddle
i’m sore

thunder in beater
beat rhythm
keep time
thunder
in twilight
and river
entwine

cry me a puddle
this mourning
wet me the way
it goes bad
keepin’ the secrets
so secret—more’n any
                             
i’ve had




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