Thursday, May 06, 2021

New Poetry by Terri Drake










Rain God

When a raindrop evaporates
before it hits the ground
it’s called sublime

the way I dream
of you and me
in freefall ecstatic in tandem

and you vanish
before disaster happens

When the rain clouds let go
we understood relief

When god created rain
rain was all she wanted

and we finally knew
what thirst was for.


- © Terri Drake 2021


Terri Drake is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.  Her poetry collection, "At the Seams" was published by Bear Star Press.  Her poems have appeared in Quarry West, Perihelion; Heartwood Literary Magazine; Crab Creek Review, and Open: Journal of Art and Letters, among others.  She is a practicing psychoanalyst living in Santa Cruz, California.

 

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