August rains (revise, new title), poem by Peter Menkin
August rains (revise, new title)...
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August rain, summer
relief,
cools the later months.
Against the larger
sky below walks
the path alone common
stranger afoot, a lone
vision this existential
separation
stays transitory;
sound the long highway
travelers north: growl to stretch
northward. The light rain
waters with relief
stark realities finite.
A mortal vision sighted
before the season changes.
This scene told anew, loneliness,
California climate norm.
Come the time of year
punctuated weather portents.
