Rain Along the Lane

by The Wild Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

Rain lays a gray glaze along the lane. Gate chains shake. A jay waits in the maple's wet shade. Far away, a train makes one fading claim, then the whole day settles again into rain.
35 words · 10 lines · Free Verse

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