DeKalb, Illinois - Joshua Lee Turner

The rain so persistent

In DeKalb, Illinois

Can barely find a coffee here much less a cause for joy

Of beauty and sorrow

The water bleeds the seam

As for the first time in twenty days to kiss a lucid dream

The rain darkened trunks make the red leaves glow brighter

A ponderous load makes the body seem lighter

And here you are

On a dark and heavy day

Both of us wishing you could stay

A gift of twelve hours

A spiritual souvenir

It’s harder though to receive a gift we know will disappear

Encroachment of nausea

As farewells impend

Till fitfully we fret to sleep, perchance to dream again

The rain darkened trunks make the red leaves glow brighter

A ponderous load makes the body seem lighter

And there you were

On a dark and heavy day

Both of us wishing you could stay