
“Rain is grace ….” John Updike
Restoration Excoriated by summer's gaze, desiring winter's cool soothe to bathe the long ache of leathered, split skin, parched and papering to dust, needing the kindness of heavens dew washing over the passage of time, soft as lizards feet, tender child of the brook once more, playing water's song of restoration. Copyright 2021 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®