Rain on the roof...

Rain on the roof

for ten whole minutes--

not enough for the trees.

Rain on the roof...

Rain on the roof--
perhaps brown branches
will turn green again.

Written in September

Summer's last hot gasp --
browned trees and grass and herbs
and dying flowers.

Comforting drumming (9/18/14)

Comforting drumming

on the roof. Plants reach up to 

greet rain with parched leaves.

9/1/14

Summer's end?  Not here:
black and white birds fly past
parched grass to a green tree.

8/31/14

Brown trees-- no water

to sustain them, nor the birds

lighting on their branches.

More 8/5/14

Heavy clouds hang
in gray skies unmoving.
May the rain come!