New Poetry by John Stanizzi

Jah Rain

Got to have kaya now

Got to have kaya now

Got to have kaya now

For the rain is falling

-Bob Marley and the Wailers, "Kaya"

                                  

rain in the hills

on curled October leaves

on the tarnished crop

 

one drop

mercurial hop

from blade of grass

to blade of grass

            glazed chain of rain

 

strings of grass

gilded with water light

playing faint notes

 

rain in the hills

a room just after dusk

the sacristy of night

 

thoughts of morning sun

thanks and praises

for the sound of wings in rain

 

blessings in blades of grass

that grow up

through shrapnel

into the air

into the clouds

the sweetest taste of life

 

lightest rain

in the dark

lights the dark

Jah rain

that makes children sing

when they drink it

- © John Stanizzi 2021

John L. Stanizzi is author of the collections Ecstasy Among Ghosts (Antrim House), Sleepwalking (Antrim House), Dance Against the Wall (Antrim House), After the Bell (BigTable), Hallelujah Time! (Big Table), High Tide – Ebb Tide (Kelsay Books), Four Bits (Grayson Press), Chants (Cervena Barva), Sundowning Main Street Rag, POND (imspired – UK)), and The Tree That Lights The Way Home (Antrim House). John is the Flash Fiction Editor of Abstract Magazine TV, and he has read at venues all over New England, including the Mystic Arts Café, the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, Hartford Stage, and many others.  He teaches literature at Manchester Community College in Manchester, Connecticut, and lives with his wife, Carol, in Coventry, CT. https://www.johnlstanizzi.com