april showers in poetry
- April 10, 2021, 4:18 p.m.
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the skeletons of long-abandoned
above-ground vinyl swimming pools
the bodegas and dollar stores where
once your childhood pizzerias stood
a car-struck possum by the roadside
awaiting nature’s cruel reclamation
and yet
there are teenagers setting up
a giant trampoline in the sunshine
and yet
there is another pizza shop
under construction across town
and yet
there are new green buds on trees
you feared long winter finally killed
the rain will fall from the skies
then evaporate and slowly rise
again and again and again
your life will go on
until someday it doesn’t
but life will go on
far longer than that
everyone’s April is
someone else’s October
it’s terrible
it’s beautiful
it’s beautifully terrible
it’s terribly beautiful
while it’s still your turn
take in as much as you can
of that trampoline sun
Last updated April 12, 2021
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