The Rain Ends at Dusk
Thunder walks away on carpet slippers,
wet leaves cockle and whisper.
A backwash of sound lingers,
a rustling of mulch
as if a mouse were nibbling a bible.
"I want to search for the perfect mountain,"
you say, lying beside me in the dark.
You don't mean a real mountain.
I don't know what you mean.
The rain ends at dusk,
but the sodden sky keeps falling,
it splashes where your body
is deep and deafened.
This thing I am doing,
I have seen horses do it -
nostrils full of shock and rage,
a question funneled through
foaming arteries.
That night I dream of hammers on pitons,
the clicking of carabiner;
your hands grasping my features
struggling to climb above me.
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Submitted by JohnDiamond on February 16, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABAXX CXCX XDEE DXXXX ABAE |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 653 |
Words | 124 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 5, 4 |
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