We the Jury by Wayne Miller

Author:Wayne Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

RAIN STUDY

1

All night, the channeling of water

in the gutters

keeps tracing

the outline of the house.

2

My son’s face pressed

to one side of the glass,

the storm to the other.

He’s too young

to understand

why the trees

swing around in nightmare

mechanical motion—

but the rain

filling the air before him

must have something

to do with it. Each

flash of lightning

brings the present

more sharply

into the present. He turns back

to our space inside it.

3

It was raining in the capital

and the nation’s new delight—

the war—was on.

A thick fuzz of rain

stood on its pintips

in every street. The awnings

hung their empty rooms

like diving bells

inside that falling.

4

Again, my daughter is talking

in her sleep—her language

just water

cycling through a fountain.

And my son, who can’t yet speak—

endless rain.

5

Then my wife and I

were alone in the house

for the first time in months—

a shocking quiet

dampened further by the gray

of rain. When the wind gusted,

a drop sometimes

landed in a square

of the bedroom’s

window screen. Later

the scattered

placement of water there

offered a record

of the afternoon.

6

On the undersurface

of a raindrop

as it falls:

a fisheyed reflection

of the ground

rising at tremendous speed

and that’s it—

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